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The President of Confederation of African Football, Mr Ahmad Ahmad on Monday performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the Real Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the groundbreaking ceremony of the Academy was jointly performed by officials of Real Madrid Football Club and Confederation of African Football. NAN reports that the foundation laying ceremony, ...

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He said he had made the decision based on the “tremendous anger and open hostility” in a recent North Korean statement. Mr Trump said it would be “inappropriate” to hold the summit as scheduled in Singapore on 12 June. In a letter to Mr Kim, ...

A victim of the ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been buried by the Red Cross. The society says this was to prevent further spread of the contagious viral disease. Dr. Pierre Formenty, is team leader for viral haemorrhagic fevers at the World Health Organization. ‘‘With Ebola, when people die, they are very contagious. So it’s a ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has taken the rare decision to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for the entire holy month of Ramadan after Israel killed some 60 Palestinian protesters in the enclave this week. The decision was made “to alleviate the suffering” of residents in the Palestinian territory, Sisi said on Facebook late Thursday. The Rafah crossing ...

Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom reiterated Friday that Moscow has nothing to do with the alleged poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Alexander Yakovenko was speaking at a press briefing in London following Sergei Skripal’s release from hospital, more than 10 weeks after the incident took place in Salisbury, England. Yakovenko welcomed Skripal’s release, but ...

More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say. Three people have survived but are in a critical condition, Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma reported. The plane was carrying 110 passengers and crew, according to the Mexican firm from which the plane was leased. Two days ...

All of Chile’s 34 Roman Catholic bishops have offered Pope Francis their resignations in the wake of a child sex scandal and cover-up. They asked forgiveness from victims and the Church for their “grave errors and omissions”. It was not immediately clear whether the Pope had accepted the resignations. He had been criticised in Chile for his decision to ordain ...

Three people have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly tying late students to crosses and flogging them with horsewhips on a Nigerian roadside. The three – including the headteacher – were taken into custody after a police officer stumbled across the incident in south-western Ogun State. Pictures show at least two young people – one boy and one girl – ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen killed the manager of a plant owned by Nigeria’s Dangote Industries Limited in Ethiopia on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive Oromiya region while returning to the capital from the factory, officials said. Oromiya, which surrounds the capital Addis Ababa, was plagued by violence for over two years, largely fueled by a ...

The African Youth Network for Leadership and Development is marked to host the 3rd edition of MODEL ECOWAS SUMMIT in Accra from May 31st to 2nd June 2018, under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana. The event will cover a three-day power packed youth empowerment activities among stakeholder discussions on issues to develop the ...