John Alberghini, like many of his fellow veterans, was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. His friend, Ed Mishard, was exposed, too. “We sprayed it out of our helicopter,” Mishard said. “Right on me,” Alberghini replied, laughing. The symptoms of exposure to Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the U.S. military as a defoliant during the Vietnam War,…
The pan-African multilateral financial institution, African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), has projected the continent’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow by 4.0 percent despite the global economic fragility. In its 2025 African Trade and Economic Outlook (ATEO) Report released on Saturday, the bank projected that Africa’s real GDP would reach 4.1 percent in 2026 and…
At least eight people have been confirmed dead after an explosive device, reportedly planted by Boko Haram terrorists, detonated on the Damboa-Maiduguri road in Borno State. SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred on Saturday, and has left several others injured and taken to the hospital. Local sources, including Facebook user, Ibn Maigana, have confirmed the…
Residents of Doubeli, a community in Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State woke up on Saturday, April 12, to the dangling corpse of a yet-to-be-identified man. The deceased who is not known to members of the area, was found dangling from a tree with no note or form of identification on…
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed deep sorrow after it was confirmed that Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu, who captained Nigeria’s 1980 Africa Cup of Nations-winning squad and later coached the team, had died in his native city of Enugu on Saturday. General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation, Mohammed Sanusi, said: “We have lost a good and…
