The family of a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death on a London street condemned the attack as senseless on Tuesday, distancing itself from the murder which has provoked an anti-Muslim backlash.

Two weeks after troops were deployed to flush out terrorists from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following declaration of state of emergency in the three states, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video published, Tuesday, called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.

Eighteen days after they were abducted while on their way to attend a wedding ceremony at Benin, the Edo State capital, wife, daughter and driver of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, Monday night, regained their freedom.

ABUJA — To fast-track Nigeria’s ambition of generating multiple sources of power to meet the electricity needs of industrialists and members of the public, the Federal Government has inaugurated a ministerial committee to develop a coal-to-power generation source for the country.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, the Majority Leader of Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Igbuya, and other government officials, Tuesday, escaped death as what could have turned out to be an air mishap was avoided by Arik Pilot of Flight W 3788 conveying over 100 passengers from Lagos to Asaba.