tw News Headlines Sept. 18, 2015
Buhari cancels visit to Cross River for groundbreaking of 260km highway | Premium Times
President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Cross River State for “the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a 260km superhighway has been cancelled.”
High-speed mobile puts Africa and India on fast track | BBC
The emergence of “high-speed mobile connectivity” in India and African countries demonstrates how growing economies can “leapfrog traditional developmental stages to accelerate their economic growth.”
Migrant crisis: Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia | BBC
After “more than 13,000 people entered the country,” Croatia has closed its “border crossings with Serbia.”
Policeman shoots woman to death, injures husband in Lagos | Vanguard
On Wednesday evening, a police corporal in Lagos “fired a shot at a moving tricycle [Keke Napep]” immediately “killing the wife of the operator, Idongesit Ekpo.”
Nwosu Speaks on Wife’s Ordeal, Says She Went on Hunger Strike | This Day Live
The wife of the wife of the Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Newspapers, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Nwosu was released on Thursday. Her husband, Mr. Steve Nwosu, explains that his wife was “locked up in one of the rooms of an uncompleted building in a swampy area of Lagos.”
Trump doesn’t challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event | CNN
Thursday night – “Donald Trump came under fire…for his handling of a question at a town hall about when the U.S. can ‘get rid’ of Muslims… and an assertion that President Barack Obama is Muslim.”
Pope Francis heads to Cuba after months of secret diplomacy | CNN
Cuba is a changing country, as the Pope’s involvement through “secret diplomacy” has led to transformations in the country.