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Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 5, 2014 · Trending (KABUL, Afghanistan) A man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on international troops, killing a U.S. general and wounding 15 other U.S.coalition troops in a machine gun attack at a military training facility in Kabul, a top Western and senior Afghan official said on […]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 6, 2014 · Trending (WASHINGTON DC, U.S) US President Barack Obama has said “a new Africa is emerging” as he opened the last day of a summit in Washington DC with 40 African leaders. Wednesday’s talks will cover both security concerns and corruption – two areas the US administration […]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
The Federal Government said on Wednesday that it is seeking collaboration with the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, U.S., to deal with Ebola virus disease in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this known to newsmen in Abuja on the death of a nurse who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian and […]
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Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Argentina has blamed the US for its debt default, calling the mediator in failed talks “incompetent”. Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said his country was considering opening proceedings at international tribunals in The Hague after it was declared to be in technical default. The announcement came just hours after last-minute talks in New York with a […]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
TEN senators of the United States (US) are seeking sanctions against Nigeria, over what they described as “a growing trend of laws and proposed legislation targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Africa.” In a letter to President Barack Obama, published by The Cable, the senators were seeking a review of the African […]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014
Few weeks ago, I got a call from a friend asking me out for a drink, but I was already at the Lagos airport. “I’m not going to be around for the next few days,” I told him. “I’m going to Abuja.” His immediate reaction was – “Why? What’s wrong? Do you want to bore […]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014

The United States has said that the Nigerian terrorist, Umar Abdulmutallab, failed to successfully carry out a bomb attack in 2009 because the explosives he was wired with became ‘degraded’ after he wore the same pair of underpants for two weeks. Abdulmutallab had, at the age of 23, confessed to and convicted of attempting to […]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014
The flare-up in gun violence igniting the streets of Chicago caught a 3-year-old boy in the cross fire early Saturday morning, local police said. The child is in critical condition. The boy was with his mother and another man, in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood, when the shooting occurred outside a home on South Sacramento […]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2014
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US officials are closely monitoring the outbreak of deadly Ebola virus which has now reached Nigeria, and is working with governments and aid groups to try to stop the spread. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those fighting the virus,” Will Stevens, spokesman for the State Department’s Africa bureau, told AFP. “The […]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2014
The German government has ordered the expulsion of a CIA official in Berlin in response to two cases of alleged spying by the US. The official is said to have acted as a CIA contact at the US embassy, reports say, in a scandal that has infuriated German politicians. A 31-year-old German intelligence official was […]