Nigerian Army Have Inducted The BTR-94

The Nigerian military, which is currently gaining success in the war against the Boko Haram insurgency, received some new heavy armoured machines.
Facebook user Nazeer Justice Ibrahim has published photos of the BTR-94 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), saying that Nigeria is re-arming at an alarming rate.

Soldier is seen near the Ukrainian-made BTR-94 APC

According to him, the Ukrainian-made BTR-94 APCs are a perfect substitution for Toyota 4×4 Hilux vans, which only are suitable for “chasing area boys in Ojota, Lagos, or Yan Daba in Kofar Naisa in Kano.”

Ambode Discusses Plans For Pensioners, Elders

Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos state has assured senior citizens and the Pensioners in the state of his constant support that will assuage their worries and pains.

Akinwunmi Ambode

He made this promise on Monday during his meeting with members of the National Union of Pensioners (Lagos state chapter) and Senior citizens at the LTV8 Blue-roof Hall in Ikeja, Lagos Daily Independent reports.

Mysterios $800,000 Blowing In The Wind In Dubai

Money is in the air, literally! Motorists driving through Dubai could not believe their eyes when it started raining money in the middle of the UAE city.

Motorists driving through Dubai could not believe their eyes when it started raining money

Thousands of 500 UAE Dirham notes – worth around 27,037N – flew through the oil-rich city on a busy afternoon earlier this month. Neither locals, no officials can explain where the cash came from. It is estimated that notes valued between two and three million Dirham ( up to 153,710,262N) were flying through the city streets.

Thirty Shia Muslims kidnapped in Afghanistan

Men from minority Hazara group were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan when masked gunmen took them away.

Hazara Muslims are often the target of sectarian violence at the hands of Sunni Muslim groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan [Reuters]

Masked gunmen have abducted 30 Shia Muslim men who were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan, according to local authorities.

Two top Mubarak-era officials acquitted in Egypt

Ex-PM Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly cleared of graft charges at retrial.

Nazif, left, had earlier been given a one-year suspended jail term [Reuters]

An Egyptian court has acquitted two top Hosni Mubarak-era officials of graft charges at a retrial, according to judicial sources.

Deadly blast rips through Nigeria bus

Explosion kills at least 10 people on outskirts of Potiskum city, in the country's northeast.

A blast has ripped through a bus in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 10 people, a hospital source told the Reuters news agency.

UN climate panel chief steps down amid sex claims

Vice-Chair Ismail El Gizouli has been appointed as acting IPCC head following Rajendra K Pachauri's resignation.

Pachauri faces accusations of sexually harassing a 29-year-old colleague

The head of the United Nation's climate science panel, Rajendra K Pachauri, has stepped down, amid claims that he sexually harassed a subordinate, reports AFP news agency.
In its press release on Tuesday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated it has agreed to designate vice-chair Ismail El Gizouli as acting IPCC chair.