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Gunfire and explosions were heard in Gombe late Thursday night, but authorities did not answer calls for comment. Series of explosions rocked the campus of Gombe State University near the university’s administrative block. Report says the explosions happened around 8 p.m. and immediately students started running out of the classes and hostels. The explosions were followed by incessant gunfire that ...

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives – for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women’s rights of getting ...

TUNIS (AFP) – President Moncef Marzouki had his hand kissed during a visit to a market but the presidency’s Facebook site deleted the clip which had gone viral, saying it was against the tenets of post-uprising Tunisia. A visibly upset Marzouki withdrew his hand after two merchants at a fruit and vegetable market south of Tunis kissed it when he ...

A real-life Rapunzel girl who cut her hair for the first time has given her family the fairytale home they always dreamed of. Natasha Moraes de Andrade, 12, wept as her 1.6m mane was sheared for the first time ever. But now she says it has given her a new life. Natasha, who lives in a shanty town in Rio ...

The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, says it attacked THISDAY Thursday to send a strong message to the media that it would no longer condone reports misrepresenting it in the press, or blaming it for acts it knows nothing about. Abul Qaqa, spokesperson for the sect told Premium Times, in an exclusive interview, that his ...