Afghanistan

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has passed new lifestyle laws banning women from looking at men they are not related to while also banning their voices and faces in public. Under the new laws meant to promote 'virtue' in…

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run education ministry has suspended university education for female students until further notice. A letter published Tuesday, Dec. 20, by the higher education ministry instructed Afghan public and private…

Anthony Iwuoma The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has warned that the Yoruba would resist attempts by terrorists masquerading to turn the South-west region into another Afghanistan where the fundamentalist Taliban are in…

More details on how Afghanistan’s former president fled the country in a helicopter with $169million in cash has emerged. Ashraf Ghani said he left on Sunday night because he wanted to avoid bloodshed, as the Taliban closed in on the…

At least 14 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded after a Taliban suicide attack outside a police station in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul. The blast occurred about 9am (04:30 GMT), in western Kabul, on Wednesday, interior…

A U.S. member of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission was on Saturday killed in Afghanistan, officials said. The mission, which made this known in a statement published on its official website did not provide details about the…

Nigeria has been counted among eight countries of the world with the highest number of hungry people. The other countries are Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen According to…

Sri Lanka on Friday said that preparations were underway to issue visa free for tourists from U.S., Britain and other countries effective from May 1, to boost arrivals during lean months. Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian…

NATO Defence Ministers on Thursday met to discuss the alliance’s military operation in Afghanistan, amid indications that the United States could withdraw some or all of its troops from the conflict-ridden country. NATO’s Resolute…

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Primary Health Care Board on Wednesday announced plans to commence polio vaccination exercise on Saturday, January 26. The board announced the commencement of the exercise during an orientation…