Dayo 'D1' Adeneye, lost the APC Primary election today to Ogun state Governor Ibikunle Amosu's former Special Adviser on Education for the Odogbolu House of Assembly ticket. Will find out about Tony Tetuila...
3 December 2014
Cameroon troops desperate for help against Boko Haram
Yaounde - Boko Haram is increasingly a regional threat and the battle against the Nigerian Islamist sect is meant to be a regional campaign, but that's not the way it feels for Cameroon's soldiers on a desperate frontline.
"We are fed up with fighting this war all alone", a Cameroonian officer said as he described his army's resistance against Boko Haram and the lack of military support from neighbouring governments.
"The attacks against our territory come from a neighbouring country, which calls itself sovereign and does nothing", said a defence ministry official who asked not to be named.
"We are fed up with fighting this war all alone", a Cameroonian officer said as he described his army's resistance against Boko Haram and the lack of military support from neighbouring governments.
"The attacks against our territory come from a neighbouring country, which calls itself sovereign and does nothing", said a defence ministry official who asked not to be named.
Zambia ruling party splits
Lusaka - A major split in Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has seen two factions select rival candidates for presidential elections next month, raising the possibility that the opposition could snatch victory.
A faction loyal to acting president Guy Scott chose late president Michael Sata's nephew Miles Sampa as its candidate on Monday night, a day after Defence Minister Edgar Lungu was named by a breakaway group.
"The PF in its current form is a weak ruling party and there is a possibility that it can lose the elections," political analyst Neo Simutanyi told AFP.
A faction loyal to acting president Guy Scott chose late president Michael Sata's nephew Miles Sampa as its candidate on Monday night, a day after Defence Minister Edgar Lungu was named by a breakaway group.
"The PF in its current form is a weak ruling party and there is a possibility that it can lose the elections," political analyst Neo Simutanyi told AFP.
Sierra Leone widens Ebola quarantine
Freetown - Ebola-hit Sierra Leone has quarantined hundreds of thousands more citizens, it said on Tuesday, sealing off a sixth district, with more than half of the country's population already under lockdown.
Tonkolili, in the centre, was added to the growing list of districts which no one is allowed to leave or enter without special dispensation, in an effort to combat an outbreak which is spiralling out of control, with 1 400 deaths so far.
Tonkolili, in the centre, was added to the growing list of districts which no one is allowed to leave or enter without special dispensation, in an effort to combat an outbreak which is spiralling out of control, with 1 400 deaths so far.
Nigerian capital city attacks claim 77 lives
Bauchi - At least 77 people died in attacks by suspected Islamic extremists who struck two northeast Nigerian state capitals, health workers said on Tuesday.
The deaths from Monday's attacks bring the toll to at least 247 people reported killed in a week of increasing violence from an Islamic uprising in the northeast of Africa's biggest oil producer.
The deaths from Monday's attacks bring the toll to at least 247 people reported killed in a week of increasing violence from an Islamic uprising in the northeast of Africa's biggest oil producer.
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