By Yahoo An explosive device planted by Taliban militants killed 11 civilians on Sunday in Afghanistan’s most violent province, a government official said. On Tuesday, authorities blamed the Taliban for setting off a remote-controlled bomb near a government building in Helmand’s capital, Lashkar Gah, which killed seven people and wounded 14. Though under pressure as [...]

Chile  – A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death toll on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting. President Michelle Bachelet said at least 708 people had been killed and called for calm as people desperate for food [...]

By Austin Ogwuda Maputo — The chorea outbreaks in northern and central Mozambique have taken 36 lives so far this year, but no cases have been reported from the south of the country, according to the spokesperson for the Health Ministry, Leonardo Chavana. Chavana told reporters on Thursday that the worst hit province is Zambezia, [...]

Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant as he tried to cross the border into Israel overnight, a security source said on Sunday. The man was shot in the stomach and leg on Saturday night by guards stationed on the border. He had refused orders to stop while attempting to cross barbed wire marking [...]

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba—MEN of the Delta state police command have arrested a five-man gang along Patani/Ughelli road with dynamites and Ak 47 rifles. State police command’s spokesman, Mr. Charles Muka who confirmed the incident said that policemen on patrol duty successfully dislodged the gang before they could strike. According to him, “police command has [...]

OWERRI—Angry reactions have continued to  trail the shocking discovery by Imo State Police Command that most of the Cash -In-Transit, CIT, vehicles operating in Nigeria are not bullet proof. Imo police boss, Mr. Aloysius Okorie, had in a recent test certified that only Bankers’ Warehouse vehicles are bullet proof and allowed the Company to continue [...]

Abuja — Despite claims by New Generation Communi-cation Consortium that it had a technical partnership with China Unicom in its bid for Nigerian Telecommu-nication Limited (Nitel), the Chinese firm has again denied having any such arrangement. But the Technical Commit-tee of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), while confirming New Generation as the Preferred Bidder [...]

Nigeria have appointed Swedish coach Lars Lagerback to lead them to the World Cup in South Africa. The 61-year-old has been handed a short-term contract by the Nigerian Football Federation which will see him take charge of the Super Eagles until after the World Cup. Lagerback was in charge of the Sweden National Team from [...]

Johannesburg – Defender Morgan Gould has played down the effect that Bafana Bafana’s new training venue will have on their preparations for the World Cup. South Africa were forced to move their training camp for June’s World Cup finals to the Sandown High School after it was revealed that the Esselen Park School of Excellence, [...]

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