The protest by students of University of Abuja over the non-accreditation of some courses entered the second day on Tuesday with the student blocking the Airport Road and other access roads, leaving many motorists and travellers stranded.

Security guards at the US embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday fired shots at a man who attacked them with a knife and an axe, an Israeli police spokeswoman said, indicating the attacker had been apprehended

Malaysian narcotics agents have foiled a Nigerian syndicate’s bid to smuggle cocaine worth $7.1 million hidden in coconut milk cans, a top police official said Tuesday

THE former Chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State, and ex Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Health during his first term in office, Oluwatoyin Hamzat, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen.

China backed calls Tuesday for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza conflict and urged the UN Security Council and the international community to bring peace to the region.

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has condemned comments credited to the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare, who claimed that acquisition of private jets by religious leaders diminishes moral voices of the church in the war against corruption and are therefore calling for a revolution in the Church of God.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will leave Asia on Tuesday to visit Israel, Egypt and Ramallah, stepping up US efforts to avoid a worsening of the Gaza crisis, an official said.

Former Chairman of the Advertising Practitioners of Nigeria, APCON, Dr May Nzeribe, has died of Prostate Cancer. He died on Sunday in India while receiving treatment for the protracted disorder.

LEADER after leader, nobody gave a damn (that word again) about the hen that was laying the golden eggs.

AFRICA is so doomed because we discuss its future without pondering the implications of the woes we bemoan.