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Many were feared dead during a bomb explosion after a Sunday mass service at St Charles Catholic Church The police confirmed the report saying five people were killed while eight others were injured in the blast. Police spokesman Frank Mba said that the bomb was �probably an IED (improvised explosive ...

See the full report from Bloomberg below… The Facebook Inc. chairman added $1.6 billion to his fortune yesterday after the world’s largest social network closed at a record. The surge elevated the 30-year-old’s net worth to $33.3 billion, moving him past Brin, 40, and Page, 41, as well as Amazon.com ...

Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since arriving Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, July 20, 2014 with symptoms of the Ebola virus has died. A Liberian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the news of Sawyer’s death was relayed to ...

Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, who flew into Italy this morning in company of her husband Daniel Wani and their two children Martin and Maya, met with Pope Francis at Casa Santa Martath inside the Vatican. According to the head of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, the meeting took ...

The Lagos State Government yesterday confirmed a possible case of Ebola Virus, which is been currently investigated while treatment is on for the 40 year old Liberian, who is now a suspect, and a possible 30 others who may have had contact with him. The Special Adviser to the Lagos ...

A high calibre improvised explosive device went off inside the crowded New Road motor park located at Sabon Gari, a predominantly Christian quarter of Kano metropolis leaving scores dead. The blast an eye witness said ripped through a bus station in Kano as passengers boarded buses out of the city. ...

The disappeared Air Algerie flight AH5017 has crashed in Niger after flying through violent storms, it has been confirmed. Algerian television station Elnahar confirmed the plane went down due to bad weather. The region was badly affected by violent storms and it was earlier said the plane was rerouted while ...

An Air Algerie Flight AH 5017 which took off �this morning from Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou has lost contact with traffic controllers.This happened 50 minutes after take off..The company said in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso and was supposed to land ...

President Goodluck Jonathan and new Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi met in some sort of reconciliation meeting yesterday July 23rd and for the first time since L.Sanusi became Emir of Kano. Both of them alongside the Sultan of Sokoto, Saa’ad Abubakar , met at the Presidential Villa in Abuja ...

Asari Dokubo’s wife, Hajia Mujahidat Daba Dokubo-Asari, believes some powerful northerners are behind this Chibok kidnap. She shared the message below on her Facebook page

General Buhari has released a statement on yesterday’s attack on his convoy in Kaduna, describing it as a clear assassination attempt. See the statement he signed himself below…. “I was personally involved in a clearly targeted bomb attack today along Ali Akilu Road, Kawo � Kaduna about 2:30pm on my ...

Former Head of State retired General Muhammadu Buhari was targeted in an apparent suicide bombing in Kaduna today, but he escaped unhurt, according to his spokesman Yau Darazo. All the three jeeps in Buhari’s convoy were damaged, while three security guards were injured. The guards have been treated and discharged ...

A bomb concealed in a red Volkswagen golf car one went off this afternoon July 23rd along Alkali road which leads to the popular Murtala Square in Central Kaduna killing at least 15 people. According to eyewitnesses, the bomb went off as a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, drove ...

A Nigerian Air Force Officer named Umar Abubakar was extensively interrogated before being gruesomely killed by members of Islamist militant sect Boko Haram. In the clip released by Sahara TV, Umar revealed to the sect that he is a member of Section 9 of the Nigerian armed forces engaged in ...

President Jonathan finally met with the parents of the abducted Chibok girls as well as the rescued girls,yesterday July 22nd at the State House Abuja. �Anyone who gives you the impression that we are aloof and that we are not doing what we are supposed to do to get the ...

A lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Dr Bede Opata has reportedly committed suicide over a yet-to-be ascertained reason, Thisday reports. � Sources within the university say the 38 year old law lecturer killed himself in his apartment within the town on Saturday July ...

Just a few weeks after lifting the WC trophy in Brazil, the President of Germany’s Football association has revealed that the World Cup was damaged by one of the players during the celebrations. The players name remain anonymous.

A Nigerian-born accountant at a chain of academies is at the centre of a fraud investigation after �4million of school funds ended up in his personal accounts. Samuel Kayode, pictured above, is said to have spent much of the cash on an extravagant lifestyle and buying a string of properties. ...

Leader and spokesman, Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria, (WITZAN), Dr. Okhue Iboi opened up to The Sun on the emergency meeting held by his members �Witches and Wizards in Nigeria are deeply worried by what is going on in the country especially Boko Haram insurgency. As stakeholders in the ...

The�Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps�(NSCDC), Abia State Command, arrested two men found with a corpse of a two-year-old girl. The men identified as�Jonathan Nwogu�and�Chibuike Anubuife�were arrested when trying to bury the corpse in an abandoned pit in Osisioma, near Aba. They were nabbed at a filling station near Ariaria ...