Nigeria’s Femi Kuti breaks world saxophone record
Femi Kuti has broken the World record for the longest single note held on a saxophone at the New Africa Shrine.
Hulk denies punch, says ‘I like Chinese people’
Shanghai SIPG’s Brazilian striker Hulk insisted he likes and respects “all of the Chinese people” as he rejected claims of a racially motivated assault on an assistant coach in the Chinese Super League.
Fulani Herdsmen: Benue group urges Ortom to give quick ascent to Anti-grazing bill
The Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has been urged to give a top priority to the security of the state by giving quick ascent to the Anti-Grazing Bill passed last week by the State House of Assembly.
Brother of teenage Islamic State stabber on trial in Germany
The 18-year-old brother of Safia S, a teenage girl who stabbed a police officer in the neck on behalf of Islamic State, goes on trial in Germany on Monday on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack in a mall in 2016.
Oil prices rise on expectations of output cut extension
Oil prices rose on Monday on a growing conviction that an OPEC-led production cut initially scheduled to end in June would be extended to cover all of 2017.
UN agency repatriates 62,372 Somali refugees from Kenya
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said that it had repatriated 62,372 Somali refugees from Dadaab camp in northeast Kenya since the return exercise begun in December 2014.
