Nigeria Negotiating With 'Foreign' Help For Chibok Schoolgirls

Activists of the online movement #BringBackOurGirls demonstrate during a march to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on January 8, 2017 to mark the 1000 days since the mass abduction of the Chibok school girls

Nigeria is negotiating with the help of "foreign entities" for the remaining kidnapped Chibok girls held by Boko Haram Islamists, a presidential spokesman said Thursday.

US Drops 'Mother Of All Bombs' In Afghanistan

This 2003 Pentagon handout shows a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, which the US deployed in combat for the first time in Afghanistan

The US military on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, targeting an Islamic State complex in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.

Water Out Of Thin Air? It Can Be Done, Say Scientists

Warka Water tower to pull drinking water out of thin air - First debuted in rural Ethiopia, and conceived as a way to help communities in the area that lack access to safe drinking water, the innovative design recently took home the World Design Impact Prize in Taipei.

People living in arid, drought-ridden areas may soon be able to get water straight from a source that´s all around them - the air, American researchers said Thursday.

NTA Chooses Osun Firm For US$31.5m National Digital Switchover

NTA

The Managing Director of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Maxwell Loko, has named an Osun State-based firm to produce Terrestrial Broadcast Set Top Boxes (STB) for the planned digital switchover from analogue to digital.

Shoelace Study Unravels A Knotty Problem

How knot-failure happens in seconds (University of California at Berkeley/PA)

You could call it shoe string theory – scientists have finally solved the knotty problem of unravelling laces.

A pair of football boots (Richard Sellers/PA)

FG Declares Two-Day Holiday For Easter

The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 14 and Monday, April 17, as public holidays to mark the Good Friday and Easter celebrations.

Magu To Remain Acting EFCC Chairman As Presidency Declares ‘Full Support’ For Anti-Corruption Chief

Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu

The presidency on Tuesday gave the clearest indication yet that it would not succumb to the Senate and remove Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the anti-graft EFCC.

Surge In Use Of Children As Suicide Bombers, UN Says

Boko Haram have used 117 children in ‘suicide’ attacks since 2014. More than 80% were girls. http://uni.cf/2ly12FS  #ENDviolence

A new report from the UN's children's agency, UNICEF, is warning of a surge in the use of children as suicide bombers by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Goodluck Jonathan Calls Bribe Allegations 'Fake News'

Mr Jonathan says allegations are meant to tarnish his international reputation. Getty Images

Nigeria's former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied allegations that he received US$200m (£160m) from the US$1.3bn payments made by international oil companies for access to a prime oil block off the coast of the Niger Delta, Punch newspaper reports

Governor Warned About Meningitis Outbreak Yet Did Nothing, Says Emir of Kano

Muhammad Sanusi II, emir of Kano, says Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara state, took no steps to prepare for the meningitis outbreak despite being given prior warning.

How We Killed Uber Driver To Steal His Car

Uber driver killing suspects

The long arm of the law has caught up with two men, who allegedly strangled an UBER driver to death in Lagos before stealing and escaping with his car to Edo State.

Hundreds Of Millions Of Poor Menaced By 'Silent Killer': Heat

On a hot, humid afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in eastern India, construction worker Sabitri Mahanand frets about increasingly "dangerous" summers.

NWS Heat Safety: Common Heat Illnesses, Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke (Adapted)

Growing Risk Of 'Mass' Starvation Deaths In Africa: UN

The United Nations warned that "the risk of mass deaths from starvation ... is growing" among people in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria

The United Nations warned Tuesday that "the risk of mass deaths from starvation ... is growing" among people in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria.

Mechanical Pump `Can Lead To Full Recovery From Heart Failure´

 (Rui Vieira/PA)

Helping blood to circulate using a mechanical pump can overcome heart failure and lead some patients to make a full recovery, a study has shown.

Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implant diagram. Image credit: 123RF

FRSC Suspends Rivers Sector Commander, Others

FRSC sector commander cutting off female officers' hair; Braids, weaves were chopped off with scissors by the sector commander 

The Federal Road Safety Corps has suspended Ayodele Kumapayi, its sector commander in Rivers State, for cutting female officers hair with scissors.

El-Rufai Dares Dogara, Publishes Security Votes

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has made public details of his state’s expenditure, including security vote.

Arsenal Shareholder Usmanov Wants Wenger To Help Pick Successor

Alisher Usmanov, Russian billionaire and owner of USM Holdings Ltd. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

Arsenal’s second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov said the London soccer team’s embattled coach should help pick his eventual successor and the board and main investor are also responsible for a recent lack of success.

Almost 800 Straight-A British Students Are Being Denied A Place At Medical School Despite A 'Crippling' National Shortage Of Medics That Has Forced The NHS To Recruit 6,000 Foreign Doctors

●Last year 770 students with excellent grades were rejected by medical schools ●As a result some of the brightest British students are having to train abroad ●Thousands of foreign doctors hired despite being more likely to be struck off for blunders 

Hundreds of straight-A British students are being denied the chance to train as doctors in the UK despite a ‘crippling’ national shortage of medics in the NHS.

Trump To Sell Attack Planes To Nigeria For Boko Haram Fight

In this April 4, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a town hall with business leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials.

A-29 Super Tucano

2-IN-1 STORY: Meningitis Patients Sleep On Floor In Zamfara Clinics; Nobody Died Of Meningitis In Lagos — State Govt

Children are the worst hit in the outbreak of meningitis in Zamfara State as hospitals and health care centres in the state struggle to keep up with the rising number of cases.

America Owes China US$1trn. That’s A Problem For Beijing, And Trump Knows It

Speak softly and … Illustration: David Simonds/Observer. Image source: The Guardian UK

The leaders shared steak in Florida, but the stakes in trade talks are much higher for China, which would struggle to find a better export market

Forget the warm handshake. Take with a pinch of salt Donald Trump’s talk of his “very, very, great relationship” with Xi Jinping. The idea that Washington has ceased to harbour deep suspicions of Beijing just because the presidents of the world’s two biggest economies shared pleasantries over steak in Florida is fanciful.