Sahara News - Nigerian and Foreign News,outstanding, groundbreaking news website that encourages citizen journalists to report.

State governments have directed residents living around flood plains and erosion spots to vacate these danger zones before it is too late. The advisory is coming against the backdrop of the heavy rainfall predicted for July in some…

EVEREST AMAEFULE Boko Haram attacks claimed 32,570 lives in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno State in the North-East of Nigeria within a period of eight years, the United Nations Development Programme has said. The UNDP said this in its…

Zenith Bank says the changes in the transaction fees for point of sale (PoS) services cannot be implemented by its registered agent bankers. Z-Money is an agency banking product of the bank that entails the onboarding of agents who are…

"It’s the plastic waste,” he laments, “scanning the beach and the sea. They dump all of it into the sea. It badly affects our boats. When it tangles the fishing gear, we can’t catch fish; it creates lots of problems for us.” Despite…

“We are hurtling towards disaster, eyes wide open”, he said.  “It’s time to wake up and step up.” Mr. Guterres was speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters following a meeting with civil society climate leaders from…

Ethiopian farmer Teshoma Abera laments the absence of rainfall and the failure of his crops. Photograph: Panos / Sven Torfinn It was not an easy life. But for fisherman Mohammadu Bello and his nine children the shallow waters of Lake…

Kenyan police prepare to burn cocaine sachets seized from drug smugglers. Photograph: Reuters / Radu Sigheti In one swoop in April, authorities in Guinea-Bissau seized 635 kilogrammes of cocaine, worth an estimated $50 mn. But the…

Around the world, attacks on children continue unabated. The number of countries experiencing violent conflict is the highest it has been in the last 30 years. The result is that more than 30 million children have been displaced by…

A university student who was kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered in South Africa, neither cried nor shouted during the brutal sexual assault, one of her attackers claimed in court. Hannah Cornelius, 21, was carjacked by four men while…

Most guys have a problem with how to approach a lady for the first time. There are a lot of questions that run through a guy’s mind when wanting to approach a lady he has spotted at an event or met at a particular moment. No one has the…