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The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, has said the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, rejected the plea by the association that the 788 doctors that were sacked last week Monday be recalled. Osahon spoke with our correspondent on Tuesday after a three-hour meeting with the governor, Commissioner for Health and the Head of Service. He ...

By SaharaReporters, New York Unknown gunmen struck again in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi, shooting a man returning from a village close to Kutaru where he had gone to see his relations. The man was walking near a public secondary school when he was targeted by the gunmen and killed. It was not known at presstime if there ...

Kenyan police arrested a Swedish national suspected to have links with the Somali Islamist militia Shebab, a senior police officer told AFP on Monday. “He is being interrogated on his mission in the country. We have reason to believe he has terrorism links (with Shebab),” the official said on condition of anonymity, naming the suspect as Magd Najjar. Police spokesman ...

Illegal immigrants have been known to go to any lengths to get into Italy but this desperate man went one step further and spent 20 hours cooped up under the bonnet of a people carrier. The 18-year-old Afghan, who has not been named, thought he had managed to slip into the country after a 20 hour ferry crossing but his ...

Former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday said President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government were hatching a plot to arrest him. Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES via his closest political associate and national secretary of his party, Buba Galadima, Mr. Buhari said the presidency and the ruling party were already preparing the ground to harass, arrest and incarcerate him. ...