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Sounds of bomb blasts and several gun shots scared residents of Tinshama in Otoro, Taurani Local Government Area of Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, Wednesday morning. The crossfire started at about 5 a.m. and lasted till about 6.30 a.m. According to one of the residents, “We woke up this morning disturbed by sounds like bombshell which sounded for about five times. ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was on Wednesday told by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that the various companies that executed the N9 billion contract awarded by the leadership of a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, have no known addresses. While testifying before the court, the prosecution witness, Ibrahim Ahmed, an ...

Africa’s top envoy, Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Senegal amid fresh clashes on Tuesday, with the opposition hoping he can talk 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade out of seeking a controversial third term in weekend polls. Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo’s arrival coincided with yet another day of violence in Dakar, where police fired tear gas to disperse protesters trying to gather ...

When Ryan Marquiss was born with his heart outside of his body, doctors didn’t expect him to survive. It is an incredibly rare condition and usually babies are stillborn or die within three days. His heart also hadn’t developed and so he only had half a heart – a combination of defects which is so rare that Ryan is the ...

(AFP) – A lion has killed two herders and 30 livestock in a settlement in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, the environment commissioner said Tuesday. “We have a lion on the rampage which has so far killed two people and around 30 herd”, Ahmed Wakil Sarki told AFP. He said the lion attacked the settlement on the edge of a forest ...