Nigeria’s Joint Military tasks Force (JTF) on Friday said it killed 17 insurgents in raids on two “terrorist camps” in the embattled northeastern state of Borno, the base of Islamist group Boko Haram.

West Bromwich Albion have criticised their striker Peter Odemwingie for driving to Queens Park Rangers on transfer deadline day in a vain bid to join the London club.

A South African court Friday postponed by a month sentencing a Nigerian national Henry Okah who is convicted of 13 terrorism charges, including the 2010 independence day bombings in Abuja.

Striker Peter Odemwingie has dismissed criticism from his club West Bromwich Albion over his bizarre attempt to force through a transfer to Queens Park Rangers on Thursday.

Ghana skipper and part-time musician Asamoah Gyan has hit the right notes leading up to Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against Cape Verde here.

Two security guards were killed in a blast outside the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, local television reported, amid speculation it was a suicide attack.

The Chairman of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Adhoc Committee for the probe of the oil subsidy, Hon. Lawan Farouk and the Committee’s Secretary, Hon. Boniface Emenalo were on Friday arraigned before an Abuja High Court on a seven count charge for allegedly soliciting for and obtaining the sum of $620,000 from the chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr Femi Otedola.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite Muslim mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding dozens as worshippers poured out of weekly prayers, officials said. The bomber detonated explosives packed into a motorcycle in a narrow lane containing both the Shiite and a Sunni Muslim mosque in the […]

The Delta Government announced on Thursday the suspension of e-payment of workers’ salaries with effect from January.

Suspected armed robbers on Thursday shot dead the choir master of Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN) in Girei, headquarters of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, in Ikosi area of Lagos, after a high tension wire snapped off a pole, electrocuting a staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria Limited, PHCN, and a security guard.

 A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Jibrin Okutepa, said on Thursday that Justice Abdulsalam Talba was not to blame for the judgment passed on John Yusuf over the theft of police pension funds. 

Chelsea forward John Obi Mikel has warned his Eagles teammate reckons Nigeria should nott fear Ivory Coast ahead of Sunday’s epic quarter-final clash, with team-mate Emmanuel Emenike in agreement.

INSPEctor General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday, in Lagos, disclosed that renovation of the Police College, Ikeja, would begin as soon as fund was released for the purpose.

…Police Affairs Committee, others get two weeks to submit report
ABUJA—The Senate Thursday said it was worried that over one month after human bodies were found floating on Ezzu river in Anambra State, no community or family had come up with claims of missing members.