UN leader Ban Ki-moon told Syria’s warring sides at a peace conference in Switzerland Wednesday that the time had come for negotiations to end the country’s bloodshed.

A total of 62 people died in 385 fire incidents recorded in Kaduna State in 2013, the Director of the state Fire Service, Mr Adamu Kadams, has said.

A Lagos High Court, Igbosere, was on Wednesday thrown into confusion as an alleged killer of Chief Funsho Williams, a gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, slumped during proceedings.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, 20 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Kwara House of Assembly, including the Speaker, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) today.

East African nations have approved a 5,500-strong military force for war-torn South Sudan to end weeks of bitter fighting that has devastated the young nation, Kenya’s foreign minister said Wednesday.

A retired British man at the centre of a gay sex case in Uganda will be deported Wednesday, a court ruled.

FOLLOWING the crisis in Rivers State, which led to the alleged shooting of Senator Magnus Abe on January 12, the House of Representatives, yesterday, considered a motion, calling for the sack the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, and Rivers Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has raised the Cash Reserve Ratio, CRR, on public deposits from 50 per cent to 75 per cent with effect from next month.

Adegboyega Adeniji-Adele, the Chairman of the Referees Commission, Kick-boxing Federation of Nigeria (KBFN), on Tuesday said the commission would strive to have good officiating at the 19th National Sports Festival.

The Police in Bayelsa on Tuesday confirmed that a mobile police officer had been shot to death in error.