Mr Opeyemi Bamidele Labour party governorship candidate in the June 21 election in Ekiti, on Thursday vowed not to collect salaries and emoluments throughout his four year tenure if elected.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau likely has little control over his fighters, the International Crisis Group said on Thursday, calling the Islamist terror group “more dispersed than ever”.

A 10-year-old boy was killed and four others were wounded when an explosive apparently hidden inside a toy they were playing with detonated in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, police said.

Chad announced Thursday it was withdrawing from the African peacekeeping force in the violence-torn Central African Republic after being accused of siding with a mainly Muslim movement that held power for most of last year.

Turkey lifted a much-criticised block on Twitter on Thursday, 24 hours after its highest court had overturned the ban as a breach of the right to free speech.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Thursday said it would include the study of Autism in its university curriculum.

The Bill to amend the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced in the Senate by the Deputy Senate President and Chairman Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ike Ekweremadu; has unveiled President Goodluck Jonathan’s hidden agenda, says Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP.

The Makurdi Business Unit of Jos Electricity Distribution Company, on Thursday said rainstorm had destroyed more than 100 electricity poles on Wednesday night in parts of Benue.

A Nigerian court on Thursday said intelligence agents broke the law when they seized the passport of ousted central bank governor Lamido Sanusi and ordered the government to pay damages and publicly apologise.

SUSPECTED kidnappers have abducted Mr. Ebi Clark, son of Ijaw leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, currently a delegate to the National Conference.