For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorised communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travellers, and kidnapping people. Groups have also turned to mass kidnapping,…
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A high court sitting in Etinan local government area, Akwa Ibom State, has nullified the practice of excluding female children from family inheritance. Pius Idiong, judge of the state high…
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Kidnappers have released all the girls abducted from a boarding school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara on Friday, the governor told Al Jazeera, as President Muhammadu Buhari expressed…
Read More Kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls released, says governor
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for…
Read More Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained, ruling party spokesman says
An American foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has accused Nigerian political elites of using the British educational system as a money-laundering shield in the guise of seeking better…
Read More Report: Nigerian elites laundering illicit funds through UK schools
