President Goodluck Jonathan has described the death of the Publisher of the Tribune Newspapers, Chief Oluwole Awolowo as sad and painful.

 Gunmen were reported to have killed unconfirmed number of persons in a Wednesday night attack on Mile-Bakwai village in Bokkos, Plateau.

The Joint Military Taskforce in Kano Thursday morning uncovered dangerous weapons of war at suspected militants hideout located in Sharada bye pass, Kumbotso local council of the state.

In December last year, Dami duro crooner Davido was enveloped in a second lady-in-bed photo scandal with an unnamed girl after the first one involving girl friend Sonia went viral in March while holidaying in Ghana.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been readmitted to hospital with a recurrent lung infection, the presidency said Thursday, urging people to pray for the frail anti-apartheid hero.

A Briton abducted last week inLagos has been released in an incident believed to be a ransom kidnapping, police and the British government said Thursday.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has described the death of Chief Oluwole Awolowo, a scion of the Obafemi Awolowo family, as a sad occurrence which has thrown the entire state into mourning.

Federal Government’s drive to attract new investments to the country’s petroleum industry has suffered a major setback, as Brazilian oil major, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Petrobras, Wednesday, commenced moves to sell off its stake in some Nigerian oil blocs valued at $5 billion or N795 billion.

Two nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers flew what the US military described as “deterrence” missions over South Korea on Thursday, in a move sure to further inflame tensions with the North.

Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, from arresting the embattled Chairman of the disbanded Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina.

A police Corporal was, yesterday, beaten to coma by four soldiers in Bauchi State following a minor misunderstanding between the army and the police in the state.

DURING 2010 Bauchi attack, there were complaints about a break down of intelligence. Residents insisted that it was worse. There seemed to have been outright ignoring of petitions people filed with the security agencies about Boko Haram. Not much seems to have changed as clinical execution of recent jail breaks testified.

MINISTER of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has called for cooperation between Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and his ministry to development in the Niger Delta region.

Axes and machetes were deployed, Wednesday evening, along the Ogoja-Calabar highway to extricate the mangled bodies of nine commuters, six males and two females, following a head on collision between an Audi 80 car and a Toyota Hiace bus.

A Principal of a secondary school and 46 other teachers and non teaching staff, mostly located in remote villages are in soup as the Delta State Commissioner for Education has ordered for the immediate stoppage of their salaries for absenteeism, following unscheduled visit to the schools.