Gunmen riding on motorcycles have killed a prominent politician in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, officials said Sunday amid a wave of similar shootings blamed on a radical Islamist group.

Syria on Sunday slammed as “hostile” a French decision to host an ambassador from the opposition National Coalition, as regime forces bombarded southern districts of the capital and clashes raged nationwide.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel is ready to “significantly expand” its operation against militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as it entered its fifth day.

ONDO State government weekend described as wicked the allegation by the opposition political parties in the state that it will abandon projects in local government not won by Governor Olusegun Mimiko in the October 20 election.

A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, says his clamor for a president of Igbo origin in 2015 is not based on the platform of any political party.

Kalu, at the United States of America, last week, said that to achieve the lofty aim, it has to be beyond the confines of a political party, hence the formation of a non partisan political movement, the Njiko Igbo.