Boko Haram Launched An Attack On Niger, Kill One

Nigerien army has repelled the attack by armed Nigerian Boko Haram group on a prison over the border with Nigeria overnight.
According to the AFP, the raid was the third on the Niger border town of Diffa in four days and comes as Niger parliament is due to vote on whether to join a regional offensive against the insurgents.

Photos from Actress Fathia Balogun's birthday party

The actress turned a year old recently and her friends threw her a birthday party. More pics after the cut...

Meet South African twin sisters who married the same man

26 year old twin sisters, Owami and Olwethu Mzazi from Vosloorus, South Africa recently got married to the same man, 51 year old Mzukiseni Mzazi.

Photos: GEJ, Mama Peace, others boogie to Duncan Mighty songs

Duncan Mighty thrilled President Jonathan, First lady Patience Jonathan and other PDP politicians
 at the presidential rally in Bayelsa state yesterday February 6th. Another pic after the cut...

Morocco banned from 2017, 2019 African Cups

The country had refused to host the 2015 football event due to fears over the spread of Ebola.

Equatorial Guinea had stepped in as hosts after Morocco's refusal [Getty Images]

Morocco have been banned from the next two African Nations Cup tournaments as punishment for withdrawing from hosting the 2015 event over fears of the spread of the Ebola virus.
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) has also been fined $1m and ordered to pay $9.12m in damages to the Confederation of African Football and their partners, CAF said in a statement.

US: Boko Haram group small but flush with cash

Intelligence officials say group is flush with cash and weapons, but only has between 4,000-6,000 "hardcore" fighters.

Nigerian soldiers display a captured Boko Haram armoured vehicle [File: EPA]

Boko Haram is flush with cash and weapons after a string of battlefield advances, but the fighting group could face a tougher fight with Nigeria's neighbours, US intelligence officials have said.
In an assessment of the group, whose five-year uprising has included massacres and kidnappings and spread from Nigeria into neighboring states, the officials said they did not believe it posed a major threat to Nigeria's oilfields in the south.

Ex-minister poised to win New Delhi poll

Aam Aadmi Party's Kejriwal looking to complete comeback and deliver first blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.

Most polls say Kejriwal's anti-corruption party is set to push Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party into second place [Reuters]

Voters have started going to the polls in India's capital, with former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal looking to complete a surprise comeback and deliver the first major blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.