Three policemen were shot and injured when suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a police station, a bank and a beer parlour in Nigeria’s Yobe state, a security official said Sunday.

Nigerians in the UK have described the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as a rare and committed leader.

Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday described the late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu as a tireless, intelligent, focused and frank negotiator who kept to his words.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the West against interfering in Russia’s upcoming elections after he formally agreed to run for a historic third term as president.

The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) commiserated with the Ojukwu family, lamenting that the nation has lost a great man.

CALL it a year of deaths and you may not be wrong. Apart from numerous deaths arising from accidents, building collapse, flooding, ethno-religious crises and mayhem unleashed by the Boko Haram Islamic sect via bomb explosions, many prominent Nigerians died in 2011.

GOVERNOR of the Central Bankof Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi warns of grave economic consequences ahead if the planned removal of fuel subsidy was not supported by Nigerians.