How technology eased Buhari’s path to power in Nigeria

April 3, 2015 | konknaijaboy

ABUJA (Reuters) – Technology played a decisive role in helping Muhammadu Buhari become the first Nigerian to oust a sitting president at the ballot box, from social media campaigning to biometric machines preventing the widespread rigging that marred past … Read More

#Nigeria: Shekau Threatens Jonathan, Buhari Ahead Of Presidential Elections

January 21, 2015 | konknaijaboy

The leader of the outlawed Islamic terrorist sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’’ Democratic Party (PDP) and his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, General Muhammadu Buhari, are both in … Read More

One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria’s Chibok freed – police

September 25, 2014 | konknaijaboy

* Boko Haram abducted 270 school girls in April

* Military says kills man posing as leader

* Fresh Islamist attack kills 18 in northeast

By Tim Cocks

ABUJA, Sept 25 (Reuters) – One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted … Read More

Spanish priest with Ebola dies in Madrid hospital

August 12, 2014 | konknaijaboy

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city’s health … Read More

Missing Malaysian jet may have disintegrated in mid-air: source

March 10, 2014 | konknaijaboy

KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam (Reuters) – Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting … Read More

Cholera Outbreak – 5 Years On, UN admits failures

March 1, 2013 | konknaijagirl

A United Nations investigation has reached a damning verdict on its own humanitarian operation, accusing it of “managerial ineptitude, high handed conduct and bad faith.”

The findings refer to its operations during a Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe that started in … Read More