A Bulgarian mayor this week ordered the sprinkling of sugar on roads to ward off “evil omens” and fight a recent increase in crashes. “Due to the rising number of deadly ro... Read more
We may no longer have Dem…ba. Or Drog…ba. And we may never have Pog..ba. But if we play our cards right, we might just have Ba…ba. Baba! Abdul Baba Rahman, that is. He... Read more
The United States formally dropped Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Friday, an important step toward restoring diplomatic ties but one that will have limited effect on remo... Read more
An explosion shook the centre of the Burundi capital on Friday but no one was injured, a police source said, as deadly unrest against against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a th... Read more
Chad said on Friday that its army killed at least 33 militants from Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group and lost three soldiers in heavy fighting on an island on Lake Chad earlier this... Read more
Sepp Blatter concluded a difficult week by handily winning a fifth term as president of world soccer’s governing body Friday, beating Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan in a vote of the bod... Read more
President Muhammad Buhari has said that the Nigerian military command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri, capital of Borno State until the Boko Haram insurgency is defeated. It is not cle... Read more
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday urged Nigerians to cooperate, support and show understanding in all situations to the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the progress of the countr... Read more
Outgoing Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has said the Accountant-General of the State, Mr Cyril Agbele, is an irresponsible man for abandoning office six days ago. The governor stated this w... Read more
Only six out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN also reports that four of the female senators were elect... Read more