Syria’s warring sides have agreed to meet together on Saturday after a first day of peace talks in Geneva stumbled with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime threatening to walk away.

One of the three governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State for the next election, Hon. Wole Oke has declared that he is the right man for the job.

The Minister of Transport, Sen. Idris Umar, says the rehabilitation of the railway from Kuru station in Plateau to the Bauchi city station will be completed before February ending.

The Chairman of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria in Enugu State, Mr Chinenye Nwaekpe, has warned against discrimination in the welfare of health workers.

The Ebonyi police command on Friday confirmed the shooting and killing of one Chukwudi Uto, a cement dealer, by unknown gunmen.

Newly married On-Air-Personality and TV presenter, Toke Makinwa has nothing else bothering her than her desire to go into acting.

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, Mr Bode Towoju, has said that there is no faction in the state chapter of the party, saying those parading themselves as state executives are trouble makers.

Chelsea’s Ghanian international midfielder Michael Essien has joined AC Milan, the Italian Serie A side announced on Friday.

Dr Ayuba Wabba, Chairman, Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) has described the three-day nationwide warning strike embarked upon by members as successful.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr Osita Okechukwu, has said the party’s directive to its lawmakers to block all executive bills and proposals was to draw President Goodluck Jonathan’s attention to developments in Rivers.

When the literary giant, William Shakespeare opined that some people are born great, others achieve greatness, while others have greatness thrust upon them, he had the likes of the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson at heart. The governor’s odyssey in life since his birth shows that he is a naturally born great man. This is not to say there were no vicissitudes at the period of his birth and boyhood which worked to no avail to deny humanity this rare gift.

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on Friday offered to partner with the Bauchi State Government to boost youth development.

Agboola Pinheiro, a member, Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) on Friday said that a stakeholder’s forum to hold on Jan. 29 in Abuja would produce the 2014 action-plan for basketball.

10 people have been killed by boko haram insurgents in Njaba village of Damboa Local Government on Tuesday while 8 others were also killed in Kaya village of the same Local Government area on Wednesday when the boko haram attacked the two villages setting houses and shops ablaze.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the harassment of its Deputy National Secretary, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, by the Department of State Security (DSS), describing as a shameful overkill the storming of his residence in Abuja by armed DSS operatives on Friday, without producing any arrest warrant.