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By SaharaReporters, New York The militant Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, an Islamist sect widely known as Boko Haram, has revealed to SaharaReporters that it plans to launch further devastating attacks on churches and government buildings in the coming days and weeks. On the heels of this week’s escalation of sectarian violence in Kaduna State, the sect said it planned ...

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says candidates are to answer questions by e-testing in the 2013 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME). The registrar made the disclosure in an interview in Bwari on Tuesday. He said that by e-testing, every candidate would answer questions on computer and await the marking of the ...

Zimbabwe’s Starmates Maneta and Roki have been disqualified from the StarGame for contravening the Big Brother house rules. The two had a fight earlier on during which Roki poured water on Maneta’s head and she apparently poured cleaning fluid on his face thus inflicting harm on him meaning that both face the axe from the game. Biggie gathered all housemates ...

Egypt’s official news agency has on Tuesday reported that said former president Hosni Mubarak, the man long seen as the symbol of stability in the Middle East but who was ousted in a popular uprising, has been declared clinically dead. Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former ruler of 30 years, is reportedly ‘clinically’ dead at 84 years old. After suffering a massive ...

(CNN) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was in critical condition Tuesday after suffering cardiac arrest and a stroke, official reports said. “We were informed by prison authority that Mubarak‘s heart has stopped and they used electric shocks and CPR to resurrect him,” Adel Saeed, official spokesman of the Egyptian prosecutor, told CNN. “He is now on an artificial respirator ...