Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has opened the country’s first metro-rail service in the capital Abuja – some eight years after the project was initiated. “The completion of this very important project is a dream come true,” Mr Buhari said during the opening ceremony. “This accomplishment clearly demonstrates our commitment to […]
International rights group, Amnesty International (AI), says personnel of the Cameroonian army are responsible for the extrajudicial execution of two women and two children supposedly in the country’s Far North region. AI said expert analysis and evidence it had gathered on the said footage showed that the men involved in […]
Eighty-six-year-old Turkish businessman Celal Afşar was arrested on Thursday along with his daughter, son-in-law and two others in Niğde province as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the tr724 news website reported. He is known as a philanthropist in his town, with public broadcaster TRT in 2011 […]
In remarks that fueled suspicions even further that the Turkish government was involved in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Thursday that July 15 was a “project” he did not like or approve of. Yıldırım’s remarks came during the […]
International advocacy organisation Global Citizen today announced that Beyoncé & JAY-Z, Cassper Nyovest, D’banj, Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Femi Kuti, Pharrell Williams & Chris Martin, Sho Madjozi, Tiwa Savage, Usher, and Wizkid will headline the first Global Citizen Festival to be held in Africa, a free-ticketed event on Sunday, 2 […]
The phrase “involuntary celibate” has taken on a new meaning since the Toronto terror attack last month. But celibacy itself is nothing new. “Joseph”, who is 60 and a widower, did not have sex until his late 30s – and not through choice. Here he shares his story. Sexual relationships […]
Nineteen divers have entered the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand on a gruelling, hazardous mission to rescue five people still trapped inside. They hope to extract all four children and the adult accompanying them, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver’s death. Eight boys rescued […]
Seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which carried out a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 have been executed, including cult leader Shoko Asahara. The Sarin attack, Japan’s worst terror incident, killed 13 people and injured thousands more. The executions took place at a Tokyo […]
A bizarre incident which left residents stunned occurred two weeks ago, at Ojodu Street, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, after a man, Buraimo Sunday, 30, and his pregnant lover identified simply as Bose, were burnt to death in their one-room apartment. The live-in lovers said to have […]
Twelve boys and their football coach trapped in a Thai cave are alive, but will need to learn to dive or wait months for flooding to recede before they can get out, the army says. The group had been missing for nine days before they were found by divers late […]
