Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday gave Akinwunmi Ambode the go ahead to run for Lagos State governorship. The court dismissed a suit seeking to stop the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Lagos, Ambode, from contesting the April […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Kenya government on Tuesday said it has concluded plans to speed up the repatriation of Somalis from Dadaab, Kenya, refugee camp. This is coming on the heels of the killing of 148 people, who were mostly students of Garissa University in northeastern Kenya […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Malaysia has passed a controversial anti-terrorism bill, which the government says is necessary to tackle the threat from Islamist extremists. The bill reintroduces indefinite detention without trial, which the Prime Minister had repealed in 2012. Human Rights Watch called the move “a giant […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Gunmen believed to be members of Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabab have killed at least 15 people and taken students hostage at a university in north-eastern Kenya. According to Kenyan authorities, the gunmen stormed Garissa University College, Garissa town, which is near the Somali […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow More than 90 minutes after the accreditation process of the 2015 general election was supposed to commence, many polling units have just commenced the accreditation of registered voters in Somolu Local Government Area. Residents of the area, most of whom expressed satisfaction with […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has commenced the accreditation process of registered voters in some polling units in Somolu Local Government Area at about 8.40am. However, with more than one hour after the stipulated time for accreditation, only a few polling units […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and voting materials are yet to arrive most polling units in Somolu Local Government Area. Though accreditation of registered voters was supposed to commence by 8am according to INEC, most polling units in Bariga, Akoka and […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to have deliberately crashed the plane, officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the “black box” voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As a Follow-up on its report and advisory on election-related violence in the forthcoming general elections, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, said it has taken several verifying, fact checking and advocacy visits to some states, to mitigate the “worrisome trend of violence” […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Two crew members have been declared missing after an Indian navy plane crashed into the sea off the western state of Goa. The navy said the plane, a Dornier surveillance aircraft, was on a routine flight when it went down late on Tuesday. […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC announced on Wednesday that it has dropped Jeremy Clarkson after the Top Gear presenter carried out an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” that left a colleague bleeding and seeking hospital treatment. The BBC director general, Tony Hall, who […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Three men convicted of involvement in the Kunming knife attack have been executed, a China court says. The men, Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad were found guilty in September 2014 of murder and terrorism acts. The Kunming knife station attack in […] More
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