The Islamist Boko Haram sect was negotiating the release of two Western hostages killed during a failed rescue bid in Nigeria, said a spokesman cited by the Nouakchott news agency.

Nearly 50 women and children were found with their throats cut or bearing stab wounds in Syria’s Homs, prompting hundreds of families to flee the restive city, the opposition and activists said on Monday.

FOR presenting the 2012 budget proposals of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja directly to the National Assembly without going through the Presidency as required by law, the Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, may be hammered by the lawmakers.

Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope Adefulire, has said domestic violence against women accounted for most deaths recorded in the state, promising that the state government was ready to do all within its power to eradicate every form of violence against women and girls.

OFFICERS and men of 13 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Calabar, Cross River State, on Sunday raided the Bakassi resettlement camp at Ekpiri Ebutong in Bakassi Local Government Area of the state and evicted 114 occupants of the camp for alleged security threats.