Welcome to NewsDirect411: July 2014

Thursday, 31 July 2014

Breaking News: Cameroon Sacks Army Officers After Suspected Islamist Attacks.

Cameroon's president has dismissed two senior army officers deployed in the country's restive north after at least 15 people died

Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 7, Mr. Suleiman Abba

Rescuers using earth-moving equipment and their bare hands dug

The Israeli military said Thursday that it is calling up 16,000 additional reservists, bolstering its forces for its fight against Hamas in Gaza after a request for more ammunition from the United States.

The addition brings the total number of reservists Israel has called up since the beginning of the operation against

Sierra Leone's president has declared a public health emergency to

A 35-year-old man, Yinka Offehin, is battling for his life at a private hospital in Lagos State after his scrotum was cut by the

Another female suicide bomber struck at the Kano Polytechnic on Wednesday, killing two people.

Osun Election Update: Governor Rauf And Omisore Boycott Radio Show Debate.

The present Governor of Osun State who is also the candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and the

While dueling political leaders blame each other for the carnage in

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world's deadliest to date. More than 670 people have died as health officials in Guinea,

The Ecobank Branch located along Lagos Abeokuta Express Road at Obadeyi Bus-stop is currently on fire as at the time of filing this report, from the look the fire started from the middle of the building, there as been effort to put out the fire and the staff

China Activists Fight Gay Conversion Therapy.

Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being

Lagbaja’s name in real life is Bisade Ologunde. The young man born and raised in Lagos began his music career in 1991. He is one hell of a Yoruba man whose real picture posted on the Internet to suggest he is not up to something criminal or cynical to

Law enforcement officials in Florida say a 9-year-old girl has died

A bomb blast has occurred again close to Buhari Square adjacent to Shoprite shopping mall in Kano killing the bomber and injuring six

Nigeria number one sprinter Blessing Okagbare took Nigeria’s medal haul to three gold at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, by picking the Women 100m gold medal with a

The former FCT Minister in person of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai took

He Lagos State Government on Monday said 59 people in the state came in contact with the 40-year-old Liberian who died of Ebola

Boko Haram militants have attacked Kolofata, a town in Cameroon’s Far North Region near Nigeria and seized several

Gaza has seen one of its heaviest nights of bombardment in three weeks, after Israel's prime minister warned of a long conflict ahead.

Gaza's only power plant was damaged as Israel carried out 60 air

Police In Alakara Police Satation Killed Passenger Over Bribe In Lagos.

The family of a man shot dead last Tuesday by policemen from Alakara police station in Lagos has claimed the body of the

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday admitted that Nigeria would have erupted in turmoil, if a former Head of State, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, had died during separate attacks on them in Kaduna on Wednesday.

He said Nigerians would not have celebrated the Eid-el-Fitri because a major calamity would have befallen the country if they had died.

The President said these just as the opposition All Progressives Congress called for an international inquiry into the attack on Buhari by a lone bomber.

Wearing a sparkling tiara and carried to her grave in a horse-drawn

The Nigeria police in Kano today said it averted a major catastrophe in Kano, Nigeria as its Explosive Ordinance Disposal

The downing of Malaysia Airlines jet MH17 in eastern Ukraine may constitute a "war crime", the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay

The leader of Nigeria’s Shiites Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky of the

One of the two Nigerians claimed that they were only showing

River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight.

A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red

The US says it has temporarily evacuated its staff from the Libyan capital Tripoli over security concerns.

Tom Greer says he fought back when he was attacked by intruders

Striker Didier Drogba has re-signed for Chelsea on a one-year deal.

The Ivorian, 36, won 10 trophies at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012 and was a

Gaza Conflict: 12-hour Truce As Deaths Top 900.

Residents in Gaza are using a 12-hour humanitarian truce to return to their homes, gather essential supplies and search for those

The Nigerian Army has apprehended a suspected insurgent in

A Liberian man hospitalised in Lagos with Ebola-like symptoms has died, an official said Friday, without confirming the virus was the

Nigeria says it has put all entries into the country on red alert after

Breaking News: Nigeria Win It First Gold In On Going Commonwealth Games Today.

Chika Amalaha (born 28 October 1997) is an Nigerian weightlifter who won Gold medal in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday met behind closed-doors with six members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly.

Sudan Apostasy Woman Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Meets Pope.

A Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has met the Pope.

Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, presently, has no cure and is ravaging

At least four people lost their lives at the New Road Luxury Park, Sabon Gari, Kano, northwest Nigeria Thursday afternoon when a

At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the

The Executive Committee of the board of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has sacked its president, Alhaji Aminu Maigari.

An Air Algerie flight with at least 116 people on board which dropped off the radar in the early hours of Thursday has apparently crashed in Mali, the flight operator said.

Air Algerie said via Twitter that the plane has apparently crashed in the Tilemsi area, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) from the southeastern city of Gao.

President Goodluck Jonathan and a former Central Bank Governor,

Breaking News: Dozens Feared Dead In Taiwan Plane Crash.

A twin-engine turboprop plane crashed Wednesday in Taiwan's Penghu Islands, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency. CNN affiliate ETTV reported that the plane crashed into a residential building.

Officials are fearful that dozens have died, though Taiwan's Transportation Minister Yeh Kuang-shih told reporters there were no casualties on the ground.