The anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP) on Sunday suspended a local councillor who blamed recent flooding across Britain on the government’s decision to legalise gay marriage.

David Silvester, a devout Christian who defected from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party in protest at last year’s move to allow same-sex marriage, claimed Britain had been “beset by storms” in recent weeks because the new law had angered God.

I once read a book on journalism which warns that one may not be objective if one pretends not to have biases or sentiments on issues or towards some people.

42-year- old Hamani Tijani, a suspected cross-border robbery kingpin, died on Sunday after suffering partial stroke for nine months at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons in Lagos.

President Goodluck Jonathan on in Abuja today said half of Nigerian politicians were not meant to be in politics, but got involved in it by accident.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the tacit defence of the Rivers State Police Commissioner Mbu Joseph Mbu by the Police Service Commission (PSC), saying the commission, by its unimaginative action, was only pandering to the Presidency which is the sponsor of the impunity in the state.