Gunmen shot dead a South Sudan reporter in an apparently targeted attack, colleagues said Thursday, days after President Salva Kiir publicly threatened to kill journalists who reported “against the country”. Colleagues, who gathered at the hospital in the capital Juba where Peter Moi’s body was taken on Thursday, said the reporter’s money and his telephone were reportedly not taken by the gunman after the killing.

The 90-year-old Nobel peace laureate told a press conference said the finding of the four melanoma spots stemmed from a procedure in which a tumor was removed from his liver.

Two men, who allegedly stabbed another man at a football viewing centre, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The accused : Akinbo Toyin (29), a printer, resident at No. 3, Aiyetobi St., Alagbado, and Adekunle Olaniyan (29), a barber, resident at Ileri -Oluwa St., Alagbado, a suburb of Lagos, are facing a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday removed the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Bright Okogu, from office.
The reason for his removal remains unclear at press time.

“Ever since he brought in this second wife, there has been trouble in the house, because our father always supports the younger wife. “Our father stopped taking care of us and our younger ones since he brought home a second wife,’’ both of them chorused before the court.