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Facebook’s plan to operate its own digital currency poses risks to the international banking system that should trigger a speedy response from global policymakers

An Iranian minister said Monday that the US was unsuccessful in its cyber attacks against Iran this week after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone.

A prosecution witness, Dare Folarin, told Justice M. Abdulgafar of Kwara High Court how herbalist, Jamiu Isiaka, defrauded a Korean national, Keun Sig Kim N30m.

Police in Cyprus have discovered the body of a six-year old girl who they say is the seventh victim of what is believed to be the island’s first serial killer.

Gunmen in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers state kidnapped two Lebanese workers helping to build a road, a police spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.

OIC says it will support the Sahel region, particularly Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, by building defence and security forces to counter terrorism and organised crime.

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday join 53 world leaders in Saudi Arabia for the opening of the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC

Condoms, perfume, wine and pianos are some American products that will be hit by Chinese tariffs on Saturday as Beijing retaliates in an escalating trade war.

At least fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring.

Mallam Nasiru Gawuna, Deputy Governor, Kano State, says the state has secured $95 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia to improve irrigation.