Director General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Affia, has emphasised the need to train corps members in self defence.

Following the deadly bomb blast in Kano yesterday, security has been beefed up in some parts of Jigawa state.

Wounded survivors on Tuesday described the terrifying scene of a suicide attack at a Nigerian bus station that killed at more than 22 people, the latest violence to hit the restive north.

Brazil’s ex-president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday predicted that Africa would not waste its chance to prosper through the 21st century, suggesting that Western dominance would likely fade.

Thirty-one victims of Monday’s Kano suicide bomb-attack are being treated at the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, Dr Mansir Nagoda, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, said.

BARELY 24 hours after the brutal murder of four teachers in their various schools in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, a bomb blast Monday hit the patrol vehicle of men of Joint Task Force (JTF) at the Roundabout of Kashim Ibrahim Way at noon, killing six JTF personnel, while four others sustained injuries.

A top female detective attached to AIG zone 1, Kano was shot to death Tuesday morning in Kano during morning rush hour.

…Says ‘Our case is not peculiar, Senators steal as well’
There was mild drama Monday at the premises of State Criminal Investigations Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos when a robbery suspect boldly confronted reporters as he was being paraded with his partners in crime.

Africa’s relations with China have been the subject of interest for decades. At a deeply personal level, my own first contact with China was almost romantic. My father was Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Peoples’ Republic of China in the early seventies and lived in Beijing, at the time of Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution.

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a painter, Gbadebo Oladejo, at the Ikoyi Prisons over alleged murder of his 40-year-old wife, Olajumoke.