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The bodies of two victims of the AirAsia plane crash have been returned to Indonesia's Surabya airport from where the ill-fated jet took off three days ago before plunging into the Java Sea. The two coffins were taken from an air force plane on Wednesday to a military ambulance to be transported to a hospital for examination and identification.

A U.S. airstrike killed the intelligence chief of the Somali terror group Al Shabab, Somalia’s intelligence service said Tuesday. Abdishakur is the name of the slain leader, who is also known as Tahlil, a

A Zimbabwean man survived an attack by a charging buffalo by hanging on to its horns, The Chronicle reported on Tuesday.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. The treatment contains antibodies that should help fight the infection.

In the second part of his report, KUNLE FALAYI takes on the Lagos State Water Corporation armed with the report of a chemical analysis done on a sample of the contaminated water which some Lagos residents drink oblivious of the dangers they face.

Ronnie and Donnie Galyon may be the world's oldest conjoined twins, but when they celebrated their 63rd birthday recently, they decided to keep it young — with a trip to Florida's amusement parks.

 Buhari’s Running Mate, Prof. Osinbajo Campaigns To Plantain Sellers

Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people have pulled dozens of bodies andpieces of wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo. Indonesia AirAsia's Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sundayduring bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

The prospect of victory for Greece’s far-Left opposition in January snap elections is threatening a new crisis for the Eurozone. Parliamentary polls were announced after Greek MPs failed to choose a new president. According to the constitution, the vote's failure means parliament has to be dissolved.

Two Albanian seamen have died in an accident while attempting to bring back a stricken Italian ferry to the shores. Eleven people had earlier died after the  Norman Atlantic  caught fire on Sunday off the Greek coast.

The head of India's ruling party has been acquitted of three murder charges in a verdict immediately denounced by the opposition. Amit Shah, the closest aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief of the ruling Bharatiya Janata

At least 5,000 people rally in Lima against new legislation that reduce employment benefits for those aged 18 to 24. Thousands of people have rallied in the Peruvian capital against a new labour law that discriminates against young people.

Scientists said today that the cause of the deadly Ebola virus that hit West Africa this year was a 2 year old boy, known as patient zero, who played on a tree near a colony of virus-infested bats in his village in Meliandou, Guinea. He was the first person to die but before he died, he infected other family members,

President Jonathan says Nigerians will praise and appreciate him more when he leaves office. He said all the criticisms he has received from Nigerians so far is expected of any serving leader. He said it's only when leaders leave office that people will begin to see and appreciate their good works.

A 37 year old Nigerian man, Ibe Godwin Uzochukwu has been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after he was found guilty by a Malysian high court for trafficking 2,150.4 grammes of methamphetamine. He was arrested with the drugs at KL International Airport (KLIA), Sepang in 2011.

Last week I told y'all about a light skinned Nollywood actress who is planning to marry the ex-husband of another light skinned actress (read  here ). Some of you guessed the ladies I was talking about - Oge Okoye and Nkiru Sylvanus. Yep, Nkiru is set to marry Stanley Duru, Oge Okoye's ex-husband and father of her two kids.

Islamic State has published an interview with a Jordanian pilot captured by militants last week First Lieutenant Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh 'sF-16 warplane was damaged during an airstrike,making the 26-year-old the first foreign military pilot to fall into the extremists' hands since an international coalition began its aerial campaign against IS in September

A transgender teenager who committed suicide by walking in front of a tractor trailer in Ohio left a heartbreaking letter in which she blamed her religious parents. Leelah Alcorn, 17, died in the early hours of Sunday on highway I-71 in Warren County, Ohio, a few miles from her family home.

For presiding over the affairs of Nigeria as its president in the last three years, President Goodluck Jonathan has pocketed N43, 230, 871.44 million as salary. In the same vein, he had within the last three years,paid N6.2 million as tax to the country.

After stopping over in New York yesterday, Chief Genevieve and her Bff are now in Jamaica.. Lovely background

  43 year old Jada Pinkett revealed to Shape Magazine that her husband Will Smith inspires her to keep fit..She said 'When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the numberone reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane… I can deal with whatever’s coming

Liberia has opened a new national cemetery to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola outbreak. A Liberian official said the 50-acre site in Monrovia, half of which is ready to use, will enable "dignified" burials instead of cremations.

Newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will be sworn in Wednesday at a ceremony in parliament, which is dominated by his anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, officials said.

A court in Egypt has banned an annual Jewish festival held in honour of a 19th Century Moroccan rabbi. The Alexandria Administrative Court said its decision was due to "moral offences" committed in previous years.

Fraud and corruption accused senior Northern Cape ANC official Yolanda Botha, who served in Parliament’s social development portfolio committee, has died.

More than 100 passengers are stranded at an airport in Tanzania after pilots failed to report to work following their Christmas break, officials said.

Search teams say that debris was found during the search for QZ8501 which was carrying 162 people [AP] Indonesian officials have said that three pieces of airplane debris sighted off Kalimantan coast in the Java Sea is likely to be from missing AirAsia jet.

The first case of Ebola virus has been recorded in Scotland. According to the Scottish government, the Ebola patient is a health worker who arrived Scotland from Sierra Leone today December 29th where she was helping to care for Ebola victims.

APC Vice Presidential candidate Prof Yemi Osinbajo was in Obalende, Lagos on Saturday Dec. 27th to  campaign for his party. See more photos after the cut ...

The December/January issue of Forbes magazine features the 4th most iconic South African figure of all time and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela and her daughter, Zindzi Mandela.

A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up among mourners inside a funeral tent on a farm about 12 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, according to police. At least 21 people were killed and 35 others injured at the funeral in al Taji, a mostly Sunni district, officials said.

The Naira on Monday appreciated against the Dollar at both the official and parallel markets. A survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos revealed that the Naira against the Dollar was traded at between N191 and N190 respectively at both markets.

More than 20,000 people have been infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since the outbreak of the virus began, the World Health Organisation has said.

  The Edo State Police Command has arrested an 85-year-old man, Peter Elaiho, for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl at Use, Ogida quarters, in Egor local government area of the state.

A former Head of State and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his academic qualifications and credentials are with the military.

  The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered.

Despite splitting for over a year, Khloe and Lamar haven't finalised their divorce.According to TMZ,thats because Khloe can't find him as he has gone missing.

A heartbroken father cradled the body of his six-year-old son who was buried alive while building sand castles on a construction site.

Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece's Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed in the disaster.

Music duo Peter and Paul Okoye, P-SQuare have been busy this festive period. Busy so much they have been flying private between venues. Enroute their next gig for tonight, the music duo took to Instagram to share photos of themselves as they get set to fly to their next destination. Peter is making fun out of time by playing cards with one of his dancers. More shots below…

Genevieve Nnaji… scratch that, Chief Genevieve Nnaji took to her instagram page earlier today to announce that she’s been given the title of a Chief in her homwtown. She shared a collage of photos from the ceremony and we think she deserves the title for making her hometown proud by being an

Ini Edo’s marriage crashed months ago, the actress has let out very little detail about why it packed up, but she can reveal that she doesn’t give a flip about what people write or say about her marriage. She told Encomium

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  "I couldn’t wrap my head around it,” says Oby Ezekwesili. “More than two hundred schoolgirls!” Eight months on, she still sounds incredulous as she recalls the moment she heard Boko Haram had kidnapped more than 200 female students in north-eastern Nigeria.

  Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari in the meeting he held with passionate volunteers in Lagos on Tuesday, 23 December, spoke with clarity and wit about issues ranking from the economy and stablilising the naira, to politics of issues, to his stewardship at the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). 

  The Cameroonian military has begun cracking down on Nigerians in the Bakassi peninsula over taxes. They gained control of the peninsula in 2013, but most inhabitants in the oil-rich area are Nigerians.

  Last week, Beyonce's father put up a garage sale in front of his office where he sold off some of Beyonce/Destiny's Child and Solange's memorabilia. After he was criticised for doing it, with many thinking he did it because he's fallen on hard times, Mathew did an interview to set the record

  L ooks like the AirAsia flight that went missing early yesterday morning may be at the bottom of the sea. Indonesian officials say a search plane hunting for the missing plane have spotted objects in the sea believed to be wreckage from the plane which was carrying 155 passengers and 7 crew members.