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Some Shi'ite Muslims and followers in the US, Canada, India and Beirut have staged a peaceful protest in their countries folowing the December 22nd arrest of the Shiite Muslim group leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. He was arrested after his members had a clash with the Nigerian Army. See...

The United States of America has set up a drone base in Cameroon in order to help the Central African Country fight Boko Haram, US-Based cbsnews.com has reported. The report which described the base as America's first in Africa, said the US has quietly sent hundreds of troops to the region in...

United State president, Barack Obama has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately probe the clash between the Nigerian Army and the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Zaria on Saturday. In a statement through its Embassy in Abuja on Wednesday, the United States government said it was deeply...

A coalition air strike killed an Islamic State finance chief in Iraq last month, the US military said Thursday, hailing it as another scalp in its bid to blow apart the extremists’ financial network. Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a...

Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-East, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has canvassed support for the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, saying it was the easiest way an Igbo man could occupy the presidency at the end of his administration. Addressing guests after...

A heavily armed man and woman in their 20s died in a shootout with police after killing 14 people at a Christmas party in California in America’s worst mass shooting in three years, authorities said. Police identified the pair as Syed Farook, a 28-year-old US citizen who worked for the local...

President Muhammadu Buhari has spent more days in trips to different parts of the world since he was sworn in on May 29, 2015 compared to travels within the country. The president’s frequent foreign trips have come under scrutiny and criticism as Nigeria faces myriad crises, from intractable...

The number of international students at United States colleges and universities increased by 10 per cent to a record high of 974, 926 students in the 2014/15 academic year, marking the highest rate of growth in 35 years. This is as Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof...

Donald Trump is the front-runner in the Republican race to be the presidential nominee for next year's election. What are his policies and beliefs? 1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11.Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September, 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans...

With the glitter of fool’s gold, Nigeria’s recently elected President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United States in July uttering time-worn democracy vows to President Barack Obama and his administration. Among other things, he pledged at the United States Institute for Peace to combat graft...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said yesterday that rival Ben Carson has a 'pathological temper' that can't be cured any more than a child molester can be cured. Trump first made the claim in an interview with CNN, then continued the strong criticism during a 95-minute rant at an...

United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle has called on the spokespersons of governors of the 19 northern states of the country not to withhold information about government activities from the public. This was at a 2-day workshop it organised for the spokespersons in...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will attend multilateral talks on finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria in Vienna this week, a government spokeswoman has said. It will be the first time Iran - an ally of President Bashar al-Assad - has attended such a summit with...