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Guinea Bissau‘s junta on Tuesday transferred power back to civilian authorities six weeks after toppling the country’s central government and derailed. The decision followed a deal between the military rulers and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which will see the West African nation under the interim administration of the speaker of the parliament, Manuel Sherifo Nhamadjo. The ...

Barring a last-minute change of mind, the Federal Government will soon begin a comprehensive investigation of politicians suspected to be behind terrorism, especially in the Northeast – hotbed of the deadly Islamist group, Boko Haram. This development follows the acceptance of the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on Security Challenges in the Northeast. Also, the committee, headed by Amb. Usman ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday descended on the nation’s legislature, judiciary and the police, describing them as corrupt, and that they held no hope for the country. Obasanjo described the majority of lawmakers at the national and state assemblies as “rogues and armed robbers,” and the judiciary as corrupt. Obasanjo, however, rated the lawmakers as better than the police ...

Two men on Tuesday vandalised a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting. The vandalism succeeded where a street protest, a court battle and a pornography probe had so far failed in making the Goodman Gallery remove the painting from an art ...

Decomposing remains of a man and a woman believed to be lovers were found in a car at the premises of a hospital in Kano on Monday evening, two months after a similar incident in the city. The corpses of Najib Aliyu and Nadiya Abdullahi Gwammaja were traced to a Nissan Avalanche car after complaints of a putrid odour by ...