After the last week’s attack by al-Shabab on Garissa University, which left 148 people dead, Kenyan fighter jets had bombarded the insurgents’ base in the neighbouring Somalia. In the shelling, the warplanes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by the militants to cross from the border to Kenya. The Kenya Military image-maker, David […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari has consoled the people of Kenya over terrorist attack, killings at Garissa Varsity. The President-elect in a statement in Abuja said that terrorists are a scourge all across Africa and the world. He said that the world must confront them together, using all the tools at […]
A terror attack on Kenya’s North Eastern University has reportedly left at least 15 people dead while students were taken hostage. It was reported that no fewer than 65 people also sustained varying degrees of injuries after gunmen attacked the campus in Garissa. A Somali militant group, Al-Shabab with links to al-Qaeda has said it […]
Some leaders including the German, Angela Merkel, French Francois Hollande and Spanish Mariano Rajoy have visited the scene of Tuesday, Germanwings plane crash. During the visit, the leaders were briefed on their mission at the crash site of the Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, but came down after an […]
Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has gone into hiding while he seeks political asylum at the US embassy in the capital, Freetown. Mr Sam-Sumana told the BBC he and his wife fled their home after “a tip-off” that soldiers were surrounding it. The move comes a week after his expulsion from the ruling party. Two […]
A British Airways flight was forced to return to England because of a ‘smelly poo’ left in a toilet. Councillor Abhishek Sachdev, from Hertfordshire, says he was on the BA flight to Dubai when it was forced to return to Heathrow. It is understood that cabin crew unsuccessfully tried to fix the problem, but the […]
The South African government is concerned its nationals may be working as mercenaries in Nigeria in the war against the Boko Haram militant group. Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri told the BBC that foreigners were just training troops in the use of new weapons. Nigeria has recently bought helicopter gunships and tanks from South Africa […]
Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections. Gbagbo, 65, had been charged with undermining state security. Her husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, is awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). More than 3,000 people […]
Many schools in Liberia have reopened, six months after they were closed to try to curb the spread of Ebola. Pupils welcomed the move, but some raised fears that the deadly disease had not yet been totally eradicated. Staff at school gates were equipped with thermometers to take pupils’ temperatures and buckets of chlorinated water […]
The AirAsia flight that crashed in the Java Sea, killing 162 people, climbed too fast before stalling, Indonesia’s transport minister has said. Ignasius Jonan told a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta that flight QZ8501 had ascended at a speed of 6,000ft (1,828m) per minute. No passenger or fighter jet would attempt to climb so fast, he […]
More criticisms have trailed the abstention of Nigeria from casting a vote in favour of Palestinian statehood at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday night. The trio of Rasheed Adesokan, a defence analyst, Wahab Egbewole, Professor on Jurisprudence and International law and Femi Abbas, a media consultant, expressed shock over the sudden shift in […]
Tragedy has occurred in central Somalia as two broadcast journalists were injured due to grenade attack at a radio station. An unknown assailant reportedly hurled two grenades late Wednesday at the Radio Galkacyo station’s complex, leaving the victims to suffer injuries, while the entire staffs were thrown into confusion and ran for safety. The injured […]
The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia’s senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak. Mr Weah got 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, which includes the capital Monrovia. He beat Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took nearly 11%. Low […]
Oyewale Oyelola, United States President, Barack Obama has congratulated 88-yeae-old, Beji Caid Essebsi Essebsi on his election as the new Tunisia President. Obama in a statement issued by US embassy in Tunis urged Essebsi to run all inclusive government. The statement readS in part; “The strong commitment by Tunisia’s leaders and the Tunisian people to […]
Gunmen believed to members of the Pakistani Taliban group, Tuesday invaded and opened fire on a Military School in Peshawar and killed not less than 132 children. The attack, which consumed estimated 141 people, the Pakistani officials and Military confirmed, has been curtailed, while those sustained injuries have been taken to the hospitals for treatment. […]
”It is a monumental breakthrough”- Ekweremadu Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Monday finally adopted and signed into law the Supplementary Act on the Enhancement of the Powers of the ECOWAS Parliament. The highest decision-making body of the ECOWAS, […]
In line with the public anticipation, the South African prosecutors Tuesday appealed against the Justice Thokozile Masipa of the Pretoria High Court culpable homicide ruling against the Paralympic medalist, Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius who killed his late girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp last year February 14, after seven months of trial was sentenced to five years imprisonment, by […]
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has been re-appointed as leader of the ruling party, while his wife Grace has been given a top position in the party. Grace Mugabe’s promotion to head of Zanu-PF’s women’s wing puts her in a good position to succeed her husband in the future, analysts say. The first lady has criticised […]
Johannesburg – MTN Group on Monday announced the launch of a mobile money cross-border remittance service between Ivory Coast and Benin, to further enable the cheaper and easy movement of money in the West Africa region. The Ivory Coast-Benin mobile money cross-border corridor follows the successful introduction of a similar service in April this year […]
After striking out the charges against the former President Hosni Mubarak and two of his sons, Egyptians have trooped out in protest against the Saturday’s court ruling. The former North African country leader was responding to a case of instructing the killing of protesters in 2011 three – week siege which consumed his almost 28 […]
