President Jonathan to grant amnesty for members of the Boko Haram Terrorist group.
Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna, disclosed this on Thursday at a special event, “A day with young leaders of Nigeria”, to mark the 15th...
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Boko Haram kill Emir of Gwoza and three other emirs kidnapped
Members of the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, today kidnapped three traditional rulers—called Emirs—in Nigeria’s volatile and violence-plagued northeast. Two of the emirs were later...
Nigerian students receives full scholarship to study abroad
Global Pathways and Kaplan have made it possible for many international high school students to study in American Universities such as Northeastern, Merrimack College and...
Security Council extends UN missions in Abyei, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia
Security Council votes unanimously to extend the mandate of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS). UN Photo/Mark Garten 29 May 2014 – The...
Central African Republic: Ban deplores recent attacks, urges end to ‘cycle of violence’
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned recent attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR) and encouraged the country’s Transitional Authority to do everything within its...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wins landslide in Egypt Election
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, took more than 90 per cent of the vote in a presidential election,...
General Sisi likely to triumph in polls as Egyptians back their ‘strong man’
Egypt’s former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is on course for a sweeping victory in presidential elections, as Egyptians went to polling stations for the...
Somalia parliament attack: At least 10 dead as Islamist militants launch deadly assault
Al-Shabaab militants stormed Somalia’s parliament building yesterday in a deadly and prolonged assault involving a suicide bomber, a car bomb and gunmen on foot and...
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 29 May is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.
UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran Officers from the Indonesian contingent of UNAMID stand in formation during a ceremony for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers...
Nigerian Air Force bombards Boko Haram camps in Bauchi forests
Loud explosions shook the Earth’s foundations in forest areas of Bauchi where Boko Haram camps are located as Nigerian Air Force jets dropped their payload...
Soldiers intercept arms in Nsukka, arrest retired DSP, corporal working for Boko haram
Three persons, including a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, and a corporal, Abu Haruna, Solomon, respectively have been arrested for illegal trafficking of arms...
Aid bureaucracy threaten to deepen S.Sudan crisis -MSF
The biggest coming challenge would be providing food to replace crops that would have been planted by the now displaced population. World Bulletin/News Desk The...
Mali Tuareg separatists accept ceasefire agreement
Tuareg separatist groups in Mali on Friday accepted a ceasefire agreement with the government following clashes this week that threatened to plunged the country back...
Boko Haram ; the enemy within…with the politician in leadership , the terrorist have come to stay
A Nigerian soldier currently serving in Borno state has alleged that members of the Boko Haram attacked Gamboru Ngala in their presence but that their...
Hague Court Sentences Congolese Warlord to 12 Years
By MARLISE SIMONS MAY 23, 2014 Former Congolese militia leader, Germain Katanga, at the International Criminal Court in Hague. Credit- Armin Taslaman/Icc European Pressphoto Agency...
How a brief campaign for the British Army’s secret X Platoon mutated into a desperate, 16-day siege in Sierra Leone
We’d been waiting for 10 edgy, nervous minutes when we heard the distinctive, juddering thwoop-thwoop-thwoop of a Chinook in-bound. Oh yeah. There is no feeling...
How a brief campaign for the British Army's secret X Platoon mutated into a desperate, 16-day siege in Sierra Leone
We’d been waiting for 10 edgy, nervous minutes when we heard the distinctive, juddering thwoop-thwoop-thwoop of a Chinook in-bound. Oh yeah. There is no feeling...
‘Act to Protect’ – UN Launches Guide On Attacks Against Schools, Hospitals
Every child has a right to education and health, the United Nations today said launching a guidance note to assist the people monitoring, reporting and...
'Act to Protect' – UN Launches Guide On Attacks Against Schools, Hospitals
Every child has a right to education and health, the United Nations today said launching a guidance note to assist the people monitoring, reporting and...
OUR SOLDIERS WILL FIND AND RELEASE THE KIDNAPPED GIRLS FROM BOKO HARAM – NIGERIANS NEED TO TRUST THE ARMY
Nigeria’s Special Forces from the Army’s 7th Division have sighted and narrowed the search for the more than 250 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to three camps...