Osun State government is accusing the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of playing to the gallery “with its self-imposed apology to Vice President Namadi Sambo over the legitimate complaint lodged by Governor Rauf Aregbesola against the violation of the rights of leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Kogi State by officers of the Nigeria Police”.

(AFP) – Advocates of US air power are seizing on the outcome of the NATO campaign in Libya as further evidence that high-tech aircraft are the key to maintaining US military might.

THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says there was no gang-up in the National Working Committee, NWC, to remove the Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, following the appointment of a new state chairman for the Bayelsa State PDP.

A loud explosion hit the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday, residents said, with the area targeted by scores of bomb and gun attacks blamed on an Islamist sect.

The maze of shacks on stilts stretch out across the filthy water’s surface, canoes colliding as they hustle between them in a slum that serves as a warning for the world’s fastest growing continent.

Al-Qaeda could be seeking new sanctuaries in unstable African nations and the continent’s disparate armed Islamist groups may forge closer ties under the Al-Qaeda umbrella, experts and officials warned.

But for warning signals from the five-storey building in Maryland area of Lagos which collapsed, on Thursday, many occupants would have been trapped and possibly killed.