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The leader of Burundi's coup on Friday said that top members of his movement were surrendering after their attempt to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza failed. "We have decided to surrender," General Godefroid Niyombare told the AFP news agency, adding that troops loyal to the president were approaching him. "I hope they won't kill us," he was quoted as saying. A presidential spokesman said three generals involved in the coup plot had been arrested, but that General Niyombare was "still on the run".

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed that he is yet to learn any useful thing from the outgoing President, Goodluck Jonathan’s government. Buhari stated this on Thursday when a committee from the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a five-point policy document to him at the Buhari Support Organisation office in Abuja. Speaking earlier, the All Progressives Congress, accused the Federal Government of not cooperating with the transition committee set up by the President-elect.

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has released a list of 26 home-based professionals who will kick-start the team’s camping programme ahead of next month’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Chad. Familiar faces Daniel Akpeyi, Solomon Kwambe, Chibuzor Okonkwo, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Rabiu Ali, Kunle Odunlami, Gbolahan Salami and Ezekiel Mba are joined by exciting new faces – Ibrahim Shaibu, Onoriode Odah and Igbinosa.

A former military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, says the leader of the defunct Biafra, the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, underestimated him by thinking that he (Gowon) would never go to war. Gowon, who led Nigerian forces to defeat Ojukwu’s army during the Nigerian civil war from 1967-1970, said this at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.

It turns out Steven Gerrard has played with a particularly round number of midfielders at Liverpool, and we've profiled all of them Steven Gerrard leaves Liverpool this summer after a lifelong association with the Anfield club. And as we approach the former England captain's final game in front of the Kop, it felt right to remember all the players that have played alongside him in midfield. It started off as just central midfield partners but in a world of tactical fluidity and give-and-take it would be unfair to exclude players that have helped Gerrard go on this long but weren't strictly in the engine room.

The singer is said be suffering from bronchitis and doctors have advised her not to use her voice Mariah on her opening night of her residency Mariah Carey has cancelled a Las Vegas show just a week after her residency kicked off. On Wednesday night fans were greeted by a sign saying the show, where she performs the entire back catalogue of her greatest hits, was off.

In an emotional letter that was shared on Facebook, the 17-year-old told school bosses that 'enough was enough' Rant: After being landed in detention, Lauren penned a letter to school bosses A 17-year-old was put in dentition for wearing a 'sexually distracting' dress to school - but she hit back at teachers in an emotional letter saying that their attitudes are supporting discrimination against women. Lauren Wiggins was criticsed by school bosses for wearing a halter neck dress to class, with teachers at the New Brunswick school in Canada labelling it 'inappropriate' and informing her that she would have to attend detention.