The British government said on Monday there is a high threat of attacks against foreigners in shopping areas in South Africa, days after a similar advisory was issued by the United States embassy in Pretoria, Reuters report. “There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners such […]
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Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has appointed his billionaire businesswoman daughter Isabel as head of state energy firm Sonangol in a shake-up that cements his dynastic grip on power in a major African oil exporter, a Reuters reports. Isabel, ranked as Africa’s richest woman by Forbes, would become chief executive after the firing of […]
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At the 51st Annual meeting of the board of governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), African philanthropist Tony Elumelu, urged the private sector to tackle unemployment among African youths on the continent. Mr. Elumelu, the Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA) and pan-African investment company Heirs Holdings said during a panel session at […]
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Desmond Tutu’s daughter has been forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa’s Anglican church after she married a woman, she told AFP on Tuesday. Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-van Furth can no longer preside at holy communion, weddings, baptisms or funerals after handing in her licence because the church does not […]
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Chibok parents refuted the Nigerian Army’s report that the second rescued girl, Serah Luka, was among the 219 kidnapped by Boko Haram. Amina Ali, believed to be among the Chibok schoolgirls, was announced rescued from the hands of the terrorists on Wednesday. The army had again said in a statement on Thursday that its troops killed […]
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Amina Ali Nkeki, the Chibok schoolgirl who was rescued Tuesday after two years in Boko Haram’s captivity, will have the opportunity to return to school and live her dreams, President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday after meeting with the girl at the presidential villa in Abuja, Premiumtimes report Amina, who was one of nearly 300 girls abducted by […]
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Another chibok schoolgirl has been rescued, the army announced last night. Army spokesman Col. Usman Sani Kukasheka broke the news. He said her name is Sarah Luka, who is believed to be the daughter of Pastor Luka, one of the parents of the missing girls, The Nation report. Col. Kukasheka said last night that the girl […]
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The Nigerian Army on Wednesday arrested a member of the Boko Haram group, Mohammed Hayatu, who claimed to be husband to the rescued Chibok school girl, Amina Ali. Hayatu’s arrest was disclosed in a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations. The Acting Army PR Officer noted in the statement: “Please […]
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Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has fulfilled her promise of donating proceeds from the public presentation of her book, “The Essentials of Beauty Therapy. A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists,” to parents of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in April 2014 and the parents of the boys also abducted in Buni […]
Read More One of the missing Chibok school girls has been reportedly found, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago. In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction from a secondary school in north-east Nigeria in April 2014. Activists told the BBC that Amina Ali Nkek was found by a […]
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Boko Haram was first on the list of priorities at an international security summit held in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Saturday. The Second Regional Security Summit, attended by French President François Hollande and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, among others, came two years after the first conference was convened in Paris. Since then, Nigeria […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he would not demand apology from the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, for describing Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country. Rather, Buhari who is currently in London for an anti-corruption summit, said all he would demand from Cameron was the return of Nigeria’s stolen assets. The Special Adviser to […]
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