President Duterte of Philippines sacks 20 for graft in military medical buys
President Duterte of Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines on Monday fired 20 people, including Colonels and a General, over accusations of fraud and graft in…
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Fire destroys Maiduguri Fish Market
An inferno at the popular Baga Fish Market in Maiduguri on Sunday destroyed dozens of shops, fish stock and other property worth millions of naira, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
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Court sentences 5 men to death for Bangladesh 1971 war crimes
A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka sentenced five men to
death on Monday for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971.
The International…
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Nigeria’s New Tribe: The Future Awards Africa announces 2018 nominations
The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), Nigeria’s foremost youth awards, on Monday in Lagos announced its call for nominations into 18 categories for the 2018 edition.
Building on the…
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Ronaldo: Brazilian World Cup winner in hospital with pneumonia
Brazil World Cup winner Ronaldo says he will be discharged on Monday, after being admitted to hospital in Ibiza with pneumonia.
The 41-year-old was responding to local reports that…
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4 policemen die during gun battle with bandits in Kaduna
The Police Command in Kaduna State said four of its operatives had died during a gun battle with bandits in the state.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Sabo Yakubu,…
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Parker Solar Probe: Nasa launches mission to 'touch the Sun'
Astrophysicist Dr Eugene Parker with a model of the Parker Solar Probe that he inspired
US space agency Nasa has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than…
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Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85
VS Naipaul
Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said.
Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more…
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Multiple blessings as woman delivers quintuplets, seeks help
By Sunny A. David, Awka
A 44-year-old woman, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwaka, from Enugwu-Ukwu, married to Abia State-born Mr Ogbonnaya has given birth to a set of quintuplets.
She was delivered…
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Indian institute to inaugurate 1st media lab – DG
The Director-General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Mr Kumar Suresh, says IIMC will be the first institution in the world to get a media laboratory when…
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Abbey Ukpukpen of PDP beats APC to clinch Obudu seat
Mrs Ukpukpen
Mrs Abbey Ukpukpen, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has won Saturday’s Obudu State Constituency Bye Election into the Cross River House of Assembly.…
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Malaria: FG to distribute 14.4m nets – Minister
The Federal Government says it will distribute 14.4 million Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) in four selected malaria most endemic states across the country before the end of…
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INEC declares Ahmed Babba -Kaita of APC winner of the Katsina North Senatorial bye election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Katsina state has declared Alhaji Ahmed Babba Kaita of the All Progressives Congress (APC ), as the winner of the bye…
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How smallpox claimed its final victim
Janet Parker worked as a photographer at Birmingham Medical School
In the summer of 1978, the last known case of smallpox was reported, claiming the life of 40-year-old medical…
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UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive…
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Bauchi by-election: Latecomer Dogara not allowed to vote
Speaker Dogara
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was disallowed from voting after arriving late at the polling station for Saturday’s Bauchi senatorial…
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