Gunmen on Monday attempted to attack a special police unit in the Nigerian capital Abuja, but police claimed to have repelled it and details were still emerging, a police spokesman said.

Unknown gunmen Monday attacked the Special Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters(SARS) in Abuja, a day after a twin suicide bombing killed 11 people in a military church in Jaji, in Kaduna state.

MEMBERS of the Oyo State Executive Council as a matter of compulsion must now undergo training in French language.

BUT for the Non-violence training he got from Amnesty Facilitator, Mr. Allen Onyema, former Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, said, weekend, that he would have been charged for coup plotting against the Federal Government when the amnesty programme started.

A middle-aged man David Suleiman has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly pouring acid on his fiancée, Chika Egbo and a yet to be identified Okada rider at Ikotun area of Lagos State.