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Against the background of alleged threats to arrest him on account of his predictions of a bloody response to any rigging of the 2015 elections, erstwhile military Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dared President Goodluck Jonathan to carry out the threat. Responding to the condemnations from the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to his assertion, Buhari ...

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, on Wednesday said he had not been officially briefed on the purported reinstatement of the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, by the National Judicial Council. The NJC, had on Thursday recommended the reinstatement of Salami who was suspended on the heels of a disagreement ...

Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who lost her leg to a rare flesh-eating infection after a zip-line injury, knows she’s lucky to be alive, according to her family. Although the 24-year-old remains in intensive care at an Augusta hospital, relying on a ventilator to breathe, she’s smiling, laughing and mouthing, “I love you.” “I believe we’ve had victory over death ...

I used to be that innocent girl who had the world at her feet. I was beautiful and I had eyes and hips that could make men sway, and to top it all up, I was a Christian, a very good Christian with a heart burning for God. When I entered the university, I met a guy, his name was ...

(CNN) — Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said. The remains were left along the road in Nuevo Leon state, between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa. A message written on a wall nearby appeared to refer to the Zetas drug cartel. “This continues to ...