International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde will visit Nigeria and Niger on December 18-22 on her first visit to Africa while leading the crisis lender, the IMF said Monday.

POLICE in Rivers has smashed a four-man gang of kidnappers at Oyigbo area of the state. Noting that the kidnappers were largely responsible for most incidents of abductions in the state the state Police Commissioner, Mr Suleiman Aba said they were gunned down during an exchange of fire with his men.

The Majority Leader in the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Philip Shaibu, on Monday in Benin has called for the repositioning of operations of the EFCC to meet the vision for which it was established.

A 25-year old pregnant housewife, Nike Simoen, in the early hours of Saturday allegedly caused the death of her husband, Garba Ibrahim, 40, at Omu-Aran, Irepodun council area of Kwara.

A 34-year-old pastor, Mrs Agboola Oladuni, on Monday appeared before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court charged with criminal trespass and an attempt to commit crime.

China executed a South African woman by lethal injection Monday for drug smuggling after rejecting last-minute pleas for clemency from her government, the foreign ministry in Pretoria said.

Former Minister of Housing Nduese Essien wants Nigerians to accept the planned removal of fuel subsidy, as it would checkmate the exploitation of the masses by few persons.

There was pandemonium in Osogbo on Sunday when a tipper truck crushed a motorcyclist and three passengers to death.

At least 11 professional mountain climbers are expected from Spain and South Africa at the third edition of Mare Festival slated for between December 15 and 17 this year in Idanre, area of Ondo state.

The UN operations in Cote d’Ivoire on Sunday in Abidjan, said legislative elections in the country were peaceful in most parts of the country in spite of low turn out of voters.