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Egyptian security officials have raided the offices of the country’s last major independent news outlet, which has been described as the last bastion of press freedom in Egypt. “Plainclothes security forces have raided Mada Masr’s office in Cairo,” the website tweete. “Staff are currently being held inside, and their phones have been …

The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, on Monday, promised a series of new measures to prevent spousal murders. The announcement came two days after tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris and elsewhere, demanding an end to what activists have termed “femicide” or the killing of women. Government figures …

When in September, in the wake of Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, Air Peace Limited Chairman, Allen Onyema volunteered to fly Nigerians in South Africa back home, the entire nation was awash with his praise. Nigerians were being brutalised and killed by savage South Africans. There was uproar in the land …

The management of Delta Polytechnic, Ozoro, has banned the use of face caps by students on campus. The rector of the polytechnic, Prof. Job Akpodiete, gave this order at the weekend shortly after the burning of more than 5,000 face caps seized from students. Akpodiete, represented by the Dean of …

A small passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Congo’s eastern city of Goma, killing 26 people, including passengers, crew, and people on the ground, the government said. The 19-seater aircraft crashed into residential homes on Sunday in the Mapendo district near Goma’s airport in the North Kivu province. Black …

Campaigners have hailed the launch of Nigeria’s first sex offender register as a vital step towards tackling reported cases of sexual abuse, which are rising across the country. The publicly accessible online register of people prosecuted for sexual violence since 2015 will allow public bodies and police authorities to conduct …

British former Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Monday, said Britain was in a dangerous mess and that neither his own Labour party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party deserved to win a Dec. 12 election. Britain is holding an election three years ahead of schedule because parliament was deadlocked …

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One of six members of a kidnapping syndicate has recounted how the syndicate got to its target businessman, Abubakar Bashar, by using information from the boy who herds his cow for him. The syndicate member, Bello Abdullahi, spoke to newsmen on Monday in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, where he …

For stealing a one-month-old baby in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, a 39-year-old woman, Mercy Momoh, was on Monday sentenced to three-year imprisonment. Momoh was tried and convicted by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on a count of stealing a baby. The police prosecutor, Sergeant Samson Osobu, told the …