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A Sri Lankan man has died while trying to set a record for the longest time spent buried alive, police say. Janaka Basnayake, 24, is said to have buried himself over the weekend with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil in the town of Kantale, about 137 miles (220km) north of Sri ...

FIFTY-Six South Africans were barred last night from entering Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Twenty-eight were stopped on Sunday – in retaliation for the deportation of 125 Nigerians last Friday – as reported exclusively yesterday by The Nation. The government may also review the status of all South Africans living in this country to ascertain the ...

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has set more than a dozen schools on fire in northern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the beginning of 2012, suspected Boko Haram members have attacked, damaged, and, in a few cases, destroyed at least 12 schools in and around Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, temporarily leaving several thousand children without ...

Tuesday’s national parade at the Independence Square comprised of 900 officers from the security agencies and 1200 teachers and pupils drawn from schools in the Greater Accra region. Read below President Mills address during this year’s Indece anniversary celebrations. 55th Independence Day Celebration Address By His Excellency President John Evans Atta Mills, President, Republic Of Ghana. March 06, 2012. His ...

Colonel John Achuzie (retd), former Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, tells Okafor Ofiebor that the next President of Nigeria must be of Igbo extraction. What emotion is coursing through you as the body of Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu is brought to his people? It is not a day for rejoicing, but a day for sober reflection and introspection. I feel a sense of ...