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Nigeria Court Convicts My Pikin Killer Syrup Makers Winds-Up Company
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Friday convicted and setenced to seven years imprisonment, two employees of Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, Adeyemo Abiodun and Ebele Eromosele. The company and its employees were charged on an amended six-count charged of the production of a killer syrup, "my pikin." There was mild drama, midway into the judgment, as one of the convicts ...
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Nigeria Govt Directs NLNG to Pay Outstanding Levies to Nimasa
The dispute between the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) over the payment of taxes and levies has been resolved in favour of NIMASA, THISDAY has learnt. An arbitration panel, which looked into the dispute was said to have aligned itself, on Friday, with the position that NLNG was not exempted from paying taxes and ...
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Sudan SPLM Deputy Chairman Says the Party Is in Trouble
Juba - The deputy chairman of the South Sudan's ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Riek Machar has warmed of a possible collapse of party, unless it democratically transforms and refocuses itself. Machar, also the country's vice president, told senior officials at the party's general secretariat that the SPLM had "lost direction and vision", making ...
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Nigeria ATCON to Hold International Workshop On IPv6
Lagos - The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in partnership with Africa Network Information Center (AfriNIC), is organising a four-day international workshop on IPv6 in Lagos from June 18 to June 21, 2013. A statement from the ATCON Executive Secretary, Ajibola Olude said participation at the workshop is targeted to Network Engineers in the African telecoms ...
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Italian fishing boats seized by Libya
Two Italian fishing vessels were detained and escorted to Benghazi by a Libyan motorboat that fired several shots, the mayor of the vessels' Sicilian home port said on Sunday. "The boats were approached by a Libyan vessel. They were obliged to sail to the port of Benghazi after arms were used," Nicolo Cristaldi, mayor of Mazara del Vallo in south-western Sicily said. He added ...
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31 suspected terrorists killed in northern Nigeria
Nigeria's Joint Task Force in northeast Yobe State said on Sunday that it has killed 31 and arrested 10 suspected terrorists during a gun battle in Kandahar and Cemetery areas of Damaturu, the state capital. The announcement was made in a statement issued by spokesman Lt. Eli Lazarus in Damaturu, who added that a field commander of the terrorists was among the suspected Boko Haram members ...
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At least 17 killed in military plane crash in Sudan security source
KHARTOUM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were killed on Sunday when a Sudanese military plane crashed west of Omdurman city near the capital Khartoum, a security source said. "A Plane, Antonov, carrying 21 military personnel, crashed in Omdurman city, east of the Sudanese capital Khartoum," the security source told Xinhua anonymously. "So far there is no official ...
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12000 striking miners sacked in South Africa
The world's largest platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Friday said it had fired 12,000 striking miners. Amplats spokesperson Mpumi Sithole said the decision to sack those miners was made after repeatedly calling for the miners to resume work. Those dismissed miners failed to attend the disciplinary hearings instituted against them for embarking on illegal strike, said ...
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Sudanese president announces opening of border with S. Sudan
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday announced opening of the border as well as the border land and river passages with South Sudan, directing for implementation of the cooperation agreement between the two countries, official Sudan Radio reported. Al-Bashir made the announcement at a meeting with Sudan's Ambassador to South Sudan Mutrif Siddiq, who is to head to Juba to assume his ...
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4 peacekeepers killed 8 wounded in Sudan UNAMID
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured by gunmen in an ambush in Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nations-African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said Wednesday in a statement. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a UNAMID patrol late Tuesday about 2 km away from their base in El Geneina town, the capital of West Darfur State, according to the statement, a copy ...
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One killed 11 injured in Nigeria bomb blast
JALINGO, Nigeria, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Federal Medical Center in central north Taraba State on Friday said one person was confirmed dead following a bomb blast at a drinking joint in Jalingo, the state capital, late on Thursday. The explosion occurred at Dorowa Ward off Barde Way in Jalingo at about 7:40 p.m., local time. Umaru Yakubu, a Medical Officer at the center told ...
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Severe floods displace more than 64000 people in Nigeria IFRC
Severe flooding in Nigeria has left at least 148 people dead and displaced more than 64,000 people in 18 of the country's 38 states, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Tuesday. IFRC said in a statement that it launched an emergency appeal on Tuesday for about 920,000 U.S. dollars to help people affected by the floods. An estimated 134,000 ...
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25 killed in Nigeria college attacks
Assailants have shot and stabbed to death at least 25 people, mostly students in the attacks near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast. Police say the attacks occurred between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday at the Federal Poly-technic campus in the remote town of Mubi in Ada-mawa state. A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency says the crisis is thought to have ...
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Grenade blast hits church in Kenyas capital
People stand on the roof of a building near the site of a grenade blast at St. Polycarp Church along Juja road in Nairobi, Kenya. Sept. 30, 2012. (Xinhua/Ding ...
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Arab League hails Sudan-South Sudan agreements
The Arab League General Assembly on Friday welcomed in a statement the agreements regarding security and cooperation reached between Sudan and South Sudan, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. The pan-Arab group said it trusts the good intentions of the two neighbors will settle the pending issues between them, according to MENA. Also, the Arab League strongly called on the ...
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Death toll of minibus crash in Zimbabwe rises to 15
The death toll of a commuter omnibus crash in eastern Zimbabwean province of Manicaland has risen to 15 as two more passengers died in hospital, police said on Sunday. Nine died on the spot when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in collided head-on with a haulage truck along the Harare-Mutare highway, while four others were pronounced dead on admission at Rusape General Hospital. Two ...
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Anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya
The commander of a powerful Libyan militia said Monday that looters had stolen "a large number" of shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missiles from the militia's base when protesters who called for dismantling the country's militias overran the compound, The Washington Post reports from Benghazi. Ismail Salabi, the commander of Rafallah al-Sahati, a powerful Islamist militia in ...
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Ebola kills 20 in D.R. Congo WHO
GENEVA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that 20 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed by Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) as of Sept. 24, with seven confirmed cases and 13 probable. A total of 19 confirmed and 32 probable cases have been reported as of Sept. 24, and another 28 suspected cases have been reported to date, according ...
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Muslims protest cartoon movie in northern Nigeria
Hundreds of Muslims in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina on Sunday protested against the U. S.-made movie and the French cartoon that denigrated the Prophet Mohammed. The protesters shouted anti-U. S., France and Israel slogans with a call on the international community to punish those behind the sacrilegious movie and cartoon. They condemned those using the media to attack Islam, ...
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Sudan South Sudan leaders meet to solve pending issues
ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit met here Sunday after months-old tensions, and they are expected to reach agreement to solve the outstanding disputes between the two countries. The two leaders met for nearly two hours to start their face-to-face talks to avoid any renewed conflicts between the two ...
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Libya dissolves militia forces
Libya's interim government on Sunday ordered the breakup of all militias that do not fall under its authority, and demanded that those militias pull out of military compounds and public property within 48 hours. President Mohammed el-Megaref said late Saturday all of the country's militias must come under government authority or disband. The order came in response to public anger at ...
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At least 3 killed in suicide bomb attack at northern Nigeria Catholic Church
At least three people were killed and 22 others sustained serious injuries in an explosion which rocked a St. John's parish of the Catholic Church located in Wunti area of northern Nigeria's Bauchi State on Sunday, during a morning mass, rescue officials have said. Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Yushau Shuaib confirmed the incident to Xinhua, but was ...
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Sudan South Sudan expect presidents summit to bear fruit
The summit between Sudan and South Sudan presidents, slated for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday is viewed as a means for the two sides to achieve a breakthrough to avoid international sanctions as the period availed by the UN Security council (UNSC) for the two countries to reach an agreement elapses Saturday. The UNSC, in its earlier resolution 2046, threatened to impose sanctions on both ...
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Libya honours murdered US ambassador
Tripoli was on Thursday holding a ceremony in honor of ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans who were killed on September 11, when armed men attacked the US consulate in the country's second city Benghazi and torched it. US Secretary of State William Burns flew to Libya on Thursday amid tight security for the ceremony. Burns met Foreign Minister Ashur Ben Khayal on arrival ...
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Somalia suicide bombing killed 14 including officials
A victim is carried on a stretcher by emergency workers and local residents in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sept. 20, 2012. At least 14 people were killed including three journalists and a number of Somali government officials and many others injured in two suicide attacks on a bar on Thursday in Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. (Xinhua/Faisal ...
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