A bomb hidden in a microphone killed an Afghan provincial governor Tuesday as he made a speech at a mosque after Eid prayers in Logar, close to the capital Kabul, officials said.

Rights group Amnesty International on Monday called for an urgent investigation after saying it had evidence that hundreds of people had died in detention facilities during a crackdown on Islamists in Nigeria.

Police in Enugu have arrested a woman that allegedly faked her own kidnap to demand a ransom from her husband.
Nancy Chukwu is accused of conspiring with a man to stage her abduction in Enugu and asking for 200,000 naira (£780; $1,250) ransom.

THE state of the economy is discussed in muted tunes. Nigerians have not been parties to the economic decisions that they bear the brunt. Public funds are essentially seen as the property of those who preside over them.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, hinged its allegation of islamisation of Osun State against Governor Rauf Aregbesola on a security report by the Department of State Services, DSS, which the body claimed indicted the governor over the issue.