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ADVERTISEMEN BUHARI   An anti-corruption group, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to revoke the oil pipeline protection contract awarded to a company linked to a former Niger Delta militant, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo.

Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko says there is a ‘colossal threat of the resumption of large-scale hostilities by Russian and terrorist forces’ Ukrainian servicemen at a checkpoint near Marinka in eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Fighting in east Ukraine has this week reportedly left 21 dead and a fragile ceasefire in tatters, prompting fears of a resumption of full-blown conflict in the region.

Rescue workers carry a survivor from the hull of a capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River in Jianli in central China’s Hubei province on June 2, 2015. Divers on Tuesday pulled survivors from inside the overturned cruise ship, state media said, giving some small hope to an apparently massive tragedy. Death toll reaches 65 with hundreds still missing feared dead Three holes cut in hull in pitch dark as rescuers work around the clock  350 people still missing as hopes of rescue start to fade Rescuers have cut three holes into the hull of the capsized river cruise ship to continue to search for survivors from the Yangtze River disaster. Hopes are fading of finding anyone else alive with the death toll - currently at 65 - expected to continue to rise as 350 passengers remain missing.

Chappell had worked on several American productions including Game of Thrones, Captain America and Divergence. The American woman who was killed when a lion leapt through a window and into a car in a South African nature park has been identified as Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old visual effects editor who had travelled to the country to volunteer as a wildlife conservationist. Chappell was killed at The Lion Park, Johannesburg, when travelling through the park’s terrain in a car. She was attacked and killed by the lioness when it jumped through her window, leaving one other passenger hospitalised with serious injuries. Chappell's photo of her holding an Emmy for Game of Thrones (Instagram) Chappell, originally from Rye, New York, lived in Vancouver, Canada. She had travelled to South Africa as a volunteer to take part in work designed to protect animals from poachers. In Vancouver Chappell had worked as a visual effects editor and ...

Following the clash between the police and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign States of Biafra a few days ago, the Imo State Police Command has arrested of 68 members of MASSOB involved with the showdown with the police.

A former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Brid.-Gen. Buba Marwa(retd.), has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party.

The President-elect, Africa Development Bank, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said he will develop programmes that will end poverty in Africa during his tenure.

The driving force behind Ireland’s historic decision last week reflects on his joy at the victory, and his reluctance to become the go-to best man for same-sex unions David Norris at the Irish parliament in Dublin following the vote in favour of legalising gay marriage. Photograph: Kim Haughton for the Observer A fter helping to win a globally unique battle for marriage equality last weekend, Senator David Norris was basking in glory at being hailed a key architect of Ireland’s momentous referendum vote to allow same-sex marriages under the constitution. Just days later, he is rueful as he reflects that he is too old and a little bit too choosy to tie the knot at his age.

US secretary of state in stable condition in hospital in Geneva Trip was scheduled to include international conference on Isis In a March photo, secretary of state John Kerry rides his bike during a break in Lausanne. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images US and Iran resume 'substantive' nuclear talks in Geneva as deadline looms Read more Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in bike crash near Scionzier in France on Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb. He then scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group.

Statement from White House says family ‘saddened beyond words’ at death of 46-year-old, a former Delaware attorney general and national guardsman In 2009 Joe Biden talks with his son Beau at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed/AP The US vice-president, Joe Biden , announced on Saturday that his son Beau had died of brain cancer. “The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words.

Interfaith leaders and community gather to support mosque. Protest the second in response to Texas shootings outside ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest Anti-Islam protesters carrying American flags face off with supporters of an Islamic Community Center during a demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday. Photograph: Dave Cruz/AFP/Getty Images Texas shooting: the group behind the Muhammad cartoon contest. Some of the hundreds of protesters arriving at a Phoenix mosque on Friday evening to demonstrate their first amendment protections carried firearms, American flags and shouted expletives.

The figures come despite efforts by the German government to help parents with childcare A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy.

. Kiev (AFP) - Germany's foreign minister warned Friday that the situation in Ukraine's separatist east was turning "very fragile" and required all sides to refocus their efforts on salvaging a three-month truce.

USS Shiloh  (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages) The drumbeat of war on distant horizons is reverberating through Southeast Asia with increasingly strong declarations of U.S. determination to stop the Chinese from expanding their writ over the South China Sea, notably islands claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.

Witnesses say hundreds of Islamist gunmen tried to advance on north-eastern city, but security sources say situation is under control Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari (centre) greets the audience during his swearing-in. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images Nigeria’s military has repelled a Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, a day after the country’s new president vowed to strengthen the defences of the key north-eastern city that was the birthplace of the militant group.

  A trailblazing activist has stripped naked at the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina in a seemingly spontaneous and definitely hilarious protest against the notion of an ”overbooked” flight.

Unicef concerned that children increasingly perceived as potential threats, after 27 suicide attacks this year A soldier at the scene of a suspected Boko Haram bomb attack in Abuja in 2014. Photograph: Olamikan Gbemiga/AP An increase in suicide bombings by girls and women used by Boko Haram means children are in danger of being seen as potential threats in north-east Nigeria, the UN children’s agency has said. There were 27 reported suicide attacks in the first five months of this year, compared with 26 in the whole of last year, Unicef said.

Hearing in the N150 billion libel suit filed against DAAR Communications by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has been fixed for May 27. Raymond Dokpesi, the Chairman of the broadcast outfit, is one of the witnesses to testify at the resumed hearing of the suit.

It was the remarkable story of how China's richest man lost $15bn in a single hour. Or so we thought. Turns out, Li Hejun didn't have quite the bad day everyone thought he did. On 20 May, the chairman of solar panel firm Hanergy, whose astonishing rise in fortunes over the past few months has confounded experts, lost $15bn when shares in the company fell 47 per cent.

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) Boko Haram militants hacked 10 people to death in a Friday raid on a village in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, a local government administrator said Monday. Dozens of Boko Haram insurgents stormed Pambula-Kwamda village in Madagali district, which the military recently declared free of the militant group, and killed 10 residents, Madagali local government Chairman Maina Ularamu said.