Niger has no plans to send ousted Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s footballer son Saadi home to face justice, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said Thursday on a visit to France.

Armed men dressed as soldiers fired into the air and stopped traffic in south Cameroon on Thursday, demanding the departure of long-serving President Paul Biya ahead of a controversial poll, reports said.

Two persons among them a graduate of Bayelsa State owned Niger Delta University were Thursday feared in a landslide which reportedly hit riverine Peremabiri community in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday named a 12-member committee to carry out a fresh review of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Laws.

Dr Frederick Faseun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), on Thursday appealed to the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to desist from carrying out its bomb threat on Saturday.

Muammar Gaddafi diehards fought pitched battles on Thursday with combatants loyal to Libya’s new rulers for control of the ousted despot’s birthplace Sirte, with heaviest fighting focused at the port.

Yobe State government says it recorded only three cases of polio within the last two years.

Edo State police Command says it had declared a local chief (names withheld) allegedly involved in the series of kidnap activities in the state, wanted.