Obasanjo @78 plays, scores two goals at birthday novelty match
ABEOKUTA-Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Wednesday, dazzled many during a fun filled football match held at MKO International Stadium, Abeokuta when his Presidential Library team slugged it out with a team of Ogun State Government led by the governor Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
British ex-marine killed fighting IS in Syria
A former Royal Marine has become the first Briton to be killed while fighting with Kurdish forces battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria, leaving his family “devastated” Wednesday.
Belgian arrested for child rape in DR Congo: police
A 74-year-old Belgian man has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo on allegations he raped two girls, police said Wednesday.Francis Belliz is accused of “raping two Congolese girls, 11 and 13 years old,” and is being held in custody in the capital Kinshasa, police spokesman Colonel Pierrot Mwana Mputu said.
Floods leave 38 dead in Tanzania
At least 38 people have died with 82 others been injured in heavy rains and floods in Tanzania’s northwest, officials said Wednesday. Torrential rains, hail and high winds hit Kahama district in Shinyanga region late on Tuesday, a statement from the office of President Jakaya Kikwete said, expressing his “shock and extreme grief”.
Happening Now: At last, Ijaw, Itsekiri agree on EPZ groundbreaking
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan, of Delta State, Wednesday, brokered a truce between Ijaw and Itsekiri nationalities over the $16 b Delta Gas City project.
Governor of Russia’s Sakhalin island arrested in graft probe
The governor of Russia’s far eastern gas hub of Sakhalin has been arrested on suspicion of taking a massive bribe, investigators said Wednesday, in a rare graft probe targeting senior officials. The long-serving governor of the Pacific island, Alexander Khoroshavin, 55, was arrested alongside several other officials for “receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale”, the powerful Investigative Committee said in a statement.
