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Ankara's 'Operation Olive Branch' aims to create a buffer zone in Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave on Turkey's border Turkey has begun a major new offensive in northwestern Syria, in a bid to oust Kurdish militia from the area. Named 'Operation Olive Branch', the ground and air operation aims to create a 20-mile (30km) "secure zone" in Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave on Turkey's border. Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA), backed by the Turkish...

Prince Harry attended 139 royal engagements in the U.K. this year, according to a new report. U.K.'s The Times has revealed the number of official appearances each of the royal family members made in 2017 and Harry has topped his brother Prince William and Kate Middleton. In addition to Harry's 139 domestic engagements, he also made 70 official appearances oversea...

Saudi Arabia aims to confiscate up to £610 billion in money and assets from princes and business leaders in its crackdown on corruption, it has been claimed. The government is swooping on members of the country’s elite as it looks to transform the conservative state into a modern country that is no longer dependent on oil. Its latest purge has seen leading businessmen and over 60 princess, officials and high-profile Saudis arrested so fa...

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrated eight years of marriage yesterday.Ivanka, 35, and Jared, 36, have been a couple since 2005 and were married on October 25, 200...

  The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had concluded plans to launch its “Operation Crocodile Smile” in Ogun State. The operation is a training and operations exercise planned for the South-western part of the country. The Brigade Commander of the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Basil Adoke, disclosed this in Abeokuta at a reception organised by the state government as part of activities to mark Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary. Mr....

  A retired senior military officer and one time governor of Kaduna State, Mouktar Muhammed, is dead. Mr. Muhammed, a retired air vice marshal, died yesterday evening, according to a Facebook announcement by his younger brother, Faruk Dalhatu. He died in a London hospita...

  A majority of the projects the Muhammadu Buhari administration is working on was inherited from previous administrations, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity has said. Mr Femi Adesina said this when he appeared on Channels Television’s special Independence anniversary programme on Sunday. “Most of the things this administration is doing – 60 to 70 percent of them – were initiated by previous governments,” he said. “That...

  United States President Donald Trump observed a moment of silence Monday at a White House ceremony marking the 16th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The observance, along with another at Ground Zero in New York, was held at 8:46 am (1246 GMT), the moment the World Trade Center in Manhattan was struck by the first of two hijacked airliner...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says James Ibori, former governor of Delta state, is “fighting tooth and nail” to stall the confiscation of his assets in the United Kingdom. In 2012, a UK court convicted Ibori of money laundering, with most of his property in the country risking confiscation.  He, however, appealed the conviction. In the latest edition of its monthly media publication, EFCC ALERT, the anti-graft agency...

Africa richest man and billionaire businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has declared that he has no interest in politics, advising that politicians and political parties should leave him alone and stop dropping his nam...

    The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has donated N5 million to the widow and children of Osaze Omorogbe, a community leader killed and burnt by kidnappers for leading security agents to foil their operation. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Community and Communications, Kehinde Bamigbetan, who presented the cheque to the family on behalf of the governor at a ceremony at the family’s residence in Isawo, Ikorodu, praised the...

  U.S. President Donald Trump planned to visit Texas today to survey the response to devastating Tropical Storm Harvey, the first major natural disaster of his White House tenur...

  Parents of a 13-year-old girl allegedly raped by her father's colleague have faced court in a battle for the right for their daughter to abort her baby. The teenager's pregnancy was only discovered after her parents took her to a doctor to seek treatment for obesity, the BBC reported....

  He reigns over a kingdom where the average salary is around $33,000 (£25,000), but that didn't stop Saudi Arabia's king splashing out $100million on holiday. King Salman travelled in style to his favourite holiday spot, Tangier, in the north west of Morocco, along with an entourage of more than 1,000, who were booked into luxury hotel...

  Malia Obama is officially a college student. The oldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama moved into her Harvard University dormitory on Monday afternoon, one day before her fellow students began arriving with their parents. The family was joined by members of the Secret Service as they pulled up to Malia's new residence in a two-SUV envoy, managing to avoid detection despite the thousands of people around the campus and in Cambridg...

Kogi State Government has declared Monday, August 21 as a public holiday for citizens to thank God for the safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the countr...

  The Borno Government today said it had constructed two model boarding primary schools to enrol children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgenc...

  Zimbabwe's government has announced that President Robert Mugabe's birthday will now be a public holiday. The announcement is the latest in a series of efforts to secure the longtime leader’s legac...

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has said the first thing he would do after acquiring Arsenal football club is to fire Arsene Wenge...

  Nigeria’s immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has denied several allegations of corruption levelled against her, including the forfeiture of an alleged 153 million US Dollars, the possession of a mansion allegedly worth 18 million US Dollars and her alleged involvement in the Malabu oil deal scam, among other...