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North Korean President Kim Jong-un has ordered citizens to submit their poo to government officials. The 35-year-old president believes his order will save North Korea’s tanking economy by turbocharging the farming sector with cheap manure. RadioFreeAsia claim the pariah state’s starving population have a choice between supplying bonkers 100kg of human excrement or 300kg of compost EVERY DAY. The demand for manure means some workers have allegedly asked to be paid in POO rather than cash….

Ghana is in talks with lenders for $300 million in loans to support the country’s loss-making cocoa regulator. Ghana Cocoa Board, which oversees sales and purchases in the world’s second-biggest grower of the chocolate-ingredient, needs 1.1 billion cedis ($223 million) to meet its commitments for the annual season through September, according to a document that was submitted to lawmakers on Dec. 22. The board recorded a shortfall of 2 billion cedis in the previous harvest,…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State said it killed 30 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on Saturday in the country’s northeastern Borno state, a claim disputed by the Nigerian Army. A Nigerian Army spokesman said an attack on troops by insurgents in the Borno village of Logomani was repelled on Saturday and eight soldiers were hurt, none with life-threatening injuries. In a statement issued through its news agency Amaq, Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for…

The names of about ten dead and retired judges appeared among the recently sworn-in 250 election tribunal members. Lawyers in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, told Daily Independent about the inclusion of dead and retired judges in the list. According to the newspaper, the group of concerned lawyers who declined being identified, faulted the list of the recently sworn in 250-tribunal members as parading over 10 names of dead and retired judges. They admitted…

A Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga has mocked Nigeria in a trending video. The Kenyan leader told a story of a Nigerian Minister involved in corruption and diversion of public funds. Odinga, who did not mention the Minister’s name, was speaking at an event when he told the story about a Nigerian Minister for Works and a Malaysian Minister for Work. According to Odinga, “A Nigerian Minister for works went on a tour to Malaysia…

Sixteen people were killed in an accident at a gold mining site in northern Ghana, a local official said on Thursday, prompting the authorities to launch an investigation. The accident happened in the Talensi area of the Upper East region early on Wednesday near a site operated by China´s Shaanxi Mining Company Limited. The exact circumstances were not immediately clear. “The death toll is 16,” local government leader Christopher Boatbil told AFP, adding that management…

Kenya appointed Trade and Development Bank and Standard Bank Group Ltd. to arrange syndicated loans of $1 billion. “We have that mandate alongside Standard Bank,” Admassu Tadesse, the president and chief executive of TDB, as the lender is known, said Thursday by phone from the East African nation’s capital, Nairobi. The bank plans to raise the financing by April, he said without giving further details of the loan. There will be three tranches — a…

 A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason. Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014 as tensions in Kiev flared up following a deadly police crackdown on protesters calling for the president to follow through with an association agreement with the European Union. Yanukovych, who eventually surfaced in Russia and was tried in absentia, faced charges of treason, along with complicity in a war against Ukraine and premeditated actions…

In continuation of its desire to empower and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship among young people in Nigeria, Facebook announced that it is launching a new incubation programme in partnership with its satellite hubs to help local start-ups and upcoming entrepreneurs realise their business goals. Participating hubs in the 8-week program include Colab, Roar Nigeria, nHub, Ken Saro Wiwa Innovation Hub, Ventures Platform, Di-Hub, Start Innovation Hub, and NG_Hub. Officially launching on February 4, the…

Popular U.S. singer, Chris Brown, who was arrested in Paris on Monday with two other persons on allegations of rape, has been released from police custody. The police are still investigating the case, the French prosecutor’s office added. Recall that Brown alongside his bodyguard and a friend were detained after a 24-year-old woman alleged she was raped at the singer’s suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on the night of Jan. 15. The woman said she…