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The Nigerian Navy has distanced itself from Commodore Jamila Sadiq Abubakar, who accused Chadian soldiers of selling arms illegally at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence. *...

The widow of slain Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, who was critically wounded in the attack that claimed his life, on Saturday issued her first public remarks since the assault, calling on the nation not to...

The new Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, started work this morning at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. She takes over the World Trade Organization today amid high expectations of a...

Auwalun Daudawa, the man identified as the gang leader behind the kidnapping of hundreds of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state has surrendered to authorities in an amnesty deal. AFP reports. Auwalun Daudawa was said...

Designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic designs helped revolutionise fashion in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 98. The French fashion giant, whose career spanned more than 70 years, helped usher in the...