Human Rights group, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, has called on the federal government to hold Borno Elders and Leaders of Thoughts, BELT, responsible for the continuous threat of Boko Haram and the bomb blasts in Kano that killed over 60 people and injured many others.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Wednesday, kicked against the recent pardon granted to the convicted former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha by President Goodluck Jonathan, describing it as a bad signal to the country’s’ quest to purge itself of corruption.

Iran is re-appraising an offshore oil field that India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) had abandoned as commercially non-viable.

According to Jalal Mousavi, head of the National Iranian Offshore Oil Company’s research and development bureau, the project is at the stage of processing seismic data.

An alleged veteran of al-Qaeda’s fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan who went on to plot a bomb attack on US diplomatic facilities in Nigeria was charged Wednesday in New York.

The US will become a net oil exporter late this year as domestic crude production surpasses imports for the first time in 18 years, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.

Helped by a surge in shale-based output in North Dakota and Texas, monthly crude production has pushed past seven million barrels a day and could reach eight million barrels a day by the beginning of 2014.

WE are in the season of political anomie in Nigeria and the vultures are already searching for carrion. The alarm bells are ringing where normality is undisturbed and the names and reputations of innocent people are the subject of sadistic imaginations of the character assassins.

The House of Representatives was Wednesday, forced to adjourn its plenary session due to intermittent power cuts which affected the public address system of the House.

Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, officials said. He was 84.

A 36-year-old man, Abdulkareem Abdulsalam, was on Wednesday sentenced to two months in prison for indecent assault by a Senior Magistrate Court in Karu, FCT.

Only two survivors have been found so far after a boat capsized off Nigeria with an estimated 128 people on board, emergency officials said on Wednesday.