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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was on Thursday presented with the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi’s robe by the Kenya’s traditional leaders. The robe is the one with which Kenyan chiefs declared Gaddafi “King of Africa,” six months before the former Libyan ruler was dethroned. Paul Kamlesh Pattni, the national chairman of the house of traditional leaders in Kenya described ...

The men arrested in the aftermath of Thursday’s botched attempt to free two abducted foreigners in Sokoto have told security agents why they killed their victims. British Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara were killed by the suspects as Nigerian soldiers and the British Special Boat Squad (SBS) stormed a house in Sokoto to rescue the foreign engineers. They had ...

It has emerged Whitney Houston had just $29k in her bank account while having debts of more than $4m. The late singer’s financial situation was disclosed during her divorce from Bobby Brown in 2007, and it showed how she had managed to blow many of the millions she had earned during her career. But while the star, who sold more ...

For years, both chambers have allocated huge sums for automobiles and office furnishings, in addition to huge illegal allowances and homes. Nigerian senators have, in the past few days, furtively taken delivery of ownership documents for the latest Toyota Land Cruiser Prado jeeps worth at least N1.2 billion, in a new purchase that has lifted the senate’s renowned lavish automobile ...

Two hostages – one British and one Italian – killed during a failed rescue attempt in Nigeria were taken to a toilet and shot dead as special forces tried to free them, a witness has said. The wife of one of the men guarding the victims described the executions amid an escalating diplomatic row between Italy and Britain over the ...