Nigeria national U-20 women’s team, the Falconets yesterday continued their impressive run in the FIFA organized football tournament by edging out hard fighting Colombians 1-0 to book a place in the finals to be decided this on Sunday.

Indian Twinkle Dwivedi, 14, has an undiagnosed disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched. The teenager, from Lucknar, Uttar Pradesh, has even undergone blood transfusions after bleeding from her eyes, nose,...

Thirty eight people died at Zango village on the outskirts of Bauchi yesterday in what the police said was a clash between members of a fringe Muslim sect described as the Kala Kato. The sect members had earlier in the day killed a soldier and a...

Nigerian star Stephen Worgu, who plays in Sudan, has been convicted of drinking alcohol and has been sentenced to be flogged. Worgu plays for the Sudanese giants Al Merreikh, who are based in Omdurman in Northern Sudan. Alcohol is illegal in the...

The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he...

Troops shelled the compound of an Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria then attacked its mosque, killing at least 100 militants in a fierce battle. Sect leader Mohammed Yusuf escaped along with about 300 followers but his...