British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has donated £1 million ($1.55 million, 1.17 million euros) to help tackle climate change, she announced Monday as UN climate talks began in South Africa.

A final year law student of University of Benin (Uniben), Chima Anthony Akpalaba was, Monday, sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for his involvement in the kidnap of a seven-year old daughter of the Chief Account, Government House Asaba sometime in February 2009.

The Islamist sect known as Boko Haram, Monday, voiced that it was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in Yobe State.

The Managing Director, LAGBUS Asset Management, Mr Tunde Disu, said on Sunday that the company had introduced scheduled services in all its existing routes in Lagos

The EFCC on Monday in Abeokuta filed additional 27 charges against former Gov. Gbenga Daniel of Ogun, who is currently on trial for corrupt practices.

Bianca, wife of the late Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, says she is grateful to God to have been able to see her husband through “his very bad times and life challenges”.

A former board member of the Nigerian Television Authority, Alhaji Isa Ozi-Salami, has urged media workers to use the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act to hold leaders accountable and expose corrupt public holders.

WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech.

Three men have been brought before an Ejigbo Magistrate’ts Court, for allegedly abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl.