A taxi driver was shot dead by a trigger-happy prison warder in Port Harcourt, Wednesday.

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has commended the decision of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to mediate in the current face-off between the Federal Government and striking lecturers under ASUU.

Udinese FC of Italy Wednesday promised to sustain its partnership with Uplift Football team by ensuring “a wider collaboration” with the wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun to make the Summer football internship programme a yearly event.

A labour and political activist in Rivers State, Mr. James Kobah, has called on Ijaw leader and former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, to leave Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, alone, and refrain from witch-hunting him.

An international coalition for action against Syria is growing, Secretary of State John Kerry told US lawmakers Wednesday, adding that Arab nations had even offered to pay for any strikes.

Ten years after African leaders made a commitment in Maputo to commit greater funds to develop agriculture and increase food security on the continent, over 150 leading figures and experts in the sector are back there to remind leaders of the critical importance of that commitment and their continued support to agriculture.

A US judge has refused to allow the public release of information divulged by the CIA to the producers of the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday.

Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Kogi State University Chapter, Sylvester Osakwe Ukwuteno, has said that the ongoing strike by the union will continue because the Federal Government has not strengthened its vision for the sector.

HI! On July 6, 2013, I must have been the happiest girl on planet earth! I finally began to travel on the path I have always dreamed of walking. The dream of being an author of books.
The presentation of my “first” book, Youth, Sex and Wellbeing took place at the Afe Babalola Auditorium, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba.
I was overjoyed. It was a dream come true, for, right from a very young age, I had nursed the dream of writing.

Ghanaian act Sarkodie courts with controversy in a fresh interview granted to a UK based radio station in which he claims to be the originator of the famous Azonto slang.

Doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly conjoined twins were healthy and happy after they were successfully separated in a marathon “nerve-wracking” operation in India by a team of 40 specialists.

ARAB leaders are generally known to be despotic and brutal, with a high sense of insecurity. Syria’s President, Bashar Al Assad is no different from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali Omar Al Bashar and others that build their security round their inner circles of family members and cronies.

‘Cool Temper’ hit maker J Martins is in Ghana to work on a song with one of Ghana’s biggest rap artistes, Okyeame Kwame.

The Vatican’s envoy to the Dominican Republic has been sacked amid an investigation in Rome into accusations he had sex with children, a spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita pledged on Wednesday to unite Mali and end endemic corruption as he was sworn in to lead the deeply-divided west African nation’s emergence from months of political crisis and conflict.