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President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he joined the Nigerian army where he retired as a Major General, to escape the pressure of getting married.    The President revealed this during a visit to the Emir of Daura, Faruk Faruk, after inaugurating two roads in Katsina state.    Presidential aide, Femi …

Five people from different families escaped being burnt to death when fire razed a four-room apartment at Araba street in Awka, the Anambra State capital.   The incident, which started around 2 am on Thursday, January 19, 2023, was suspected to have emanated from a spark from electrical connections in one …

The sun is blindingly bright, the air balmy, the sea a clear turquoise-blue and 18C, with no suspicious murky stripes of pollution. Paddling out into the Atlantic from El Palmar, on south-west Spain’s Costa de la Luz, is a far cry from a January surf experience in the UK. El …

2023 United Cup day six schedule and results (All times AEDT) Watch Team Australia take on the world in the United Cup, live and exclusive on 9Now and Stan Sport. 10am | SYDNEY | Group C | (3) USA v (10) Germany J Pegula def L Siegemund 6-3, 6-2 F …

At least 14 people died while dozens escaped after a brazen armed assault on a prison in the Mexican border city of Juarez on Sunday, January 1, government officials said.   The Chihuahua state attorney general’s office said in a statement on Monday that 10 security guards and four prisoners …

Chelsea began their 2023 by dropping points to struggling Nottingham Forest in a disappointing 1-1 draw Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea first half Nottingham Forest began the game on the front foot and it became clear that they had a plan to absorb the Chelsea pressure and hit them on the …

The idea at first was to find a bunk hole, a hideaway, a place to weather out the pandemic – or would it be a nuclear exchange courtesy of a disgruntled Russia? Whatever the catastrophe, it was looming. I grew up watching The War Game, The Day of the Triffids, …

A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has paid the N13 million fine slammed on him on Monday, December 19, by a Federal High Court in Abuja after he was found guilty of receiving over N200m cash from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki …

However fraught your journey (ours is seven hours, fretting as our electric car battery dwindles), reaching Kinloch Lodge is a joyful corrective. As you cross the bridge to Skye, it’s instantly apparent you’ve escaped the grind – soft ranges of peaks, each fainter and hazier than the last, in shades …

Kyiv, Ukraine – A minibus with 16 Ukrainian civilians, including two children, left a checkpoint manned by Russian soldiers on a hot May afternoon. The driver took a zigzagging dirt road paved in the steppe by hundreds of cars that had swerved off the asphalt damaged by shelling. The bus …