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The Northern Regional Director of the National Population Council, Mr. Alhassan Issahaku Amadu, has expressed concern about the problems high rate of polygamous and serial marriages are creating in the area. He said polygamy has made some men opt out of their marriages when they were faced with economic difficulties. He said this has created so much problems, including child ...

About 16,000 people were reported fleeing across the border to escape the fighting that broke out on Thursday between armed forces and a rebel group in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. The report says the people are believed to be fleeing to Ethiopia. Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, appealed Saturday for an immediate end to the clashes. A ...

Scores of people have been reported killed again on Thursday in a fresh hostility in some parts of the troubled Jos North, Nigeria. This occurred when some group of youths engaged in gun battle with the law enforcement agents in both Dutse Uku and Army Engineer parts of the council. Report said the violence started at about 2:00pm at Dutse ...

The president of the Dominion US rice firm, Mr Calvin Burgess, has said the firm is expanding to three other countries in Africa in the next one year. He said the three countries, which he refused to mention at the moment, had sent delegations on a fact finding mission to his farm to discuss the modalities on how to replicate ...