Top-ranking former French officials on Monday angrily rejected claims of complicity in Rwanda’s genocide, as ceremonies were held in Kigali to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacres.

Ghana’s health authorities have announced the first suspected case of the deadly Ebola disease at the country’s second biggest hospital, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi.

Delegates at the National Conference on Monday, resumed plenary with calls on government and security agencies to redouble their efforts to stem the rising spate of insecurity in the country.

Prof AbdulGaniyu Ambali, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, on Monday said Federal Government alone would not be able to effectively provide the fund and infrastructure needed by its Universities.

THERE is the direct killing, like the one happening in the Boko Haram-ravaged states. Some human beings have to be eliminated for the country to move forward. So, for anyone Boko Haram gunned down, it is one less of the bad guys in our society; such people are not fit to co-habit with decent individuals.

THE Nigerian centenary celebration was to honour hundred persons, some, post-hummus. The number of the award recipients was deliberately pegged at one hundred so that it will conform exactly to the number of years of Nigeria’s existence. A number of questions ran through my mind.

IN a famous major musical hit by the Black American female singer Roberta Flack, she described a man as “killing her softly, with his song”.

It explained that “the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to which Nigeria is a party provides that, higher education shall be made equally accessible to all on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education.”

SENATE President David Mark, former Lagos State governor and National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, APC interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande honored the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday in Dubai where his son, Abubakar Abba Atiku, wedded his heartthrob, Mariayana Silver Abubakar, an American.

THEY are supposed to be herdsmen taking care of their cattle. But they have metamorphosed into butchers of human beings wherever they make their abode. That is the story of Fulani herdsmen who have turned the farmlands in several states in the North into slaughter fields.