A pregnant women (names withheld) and a middle aged man, identified as Barber, were, yesterday, killed by lightning during a downpour in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State.

THE Senate, yesterday, gave its nod to the establishment of College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the country, as a bill to that effect scaled second reading.

President Goodluck Jonathan leaves for Pretoria, South Africa today for high‑level discussions with other African Heads of State and Government on combating terrorism in Africa.

The Federal Government has approved the extension of the ongoing National Conference by four weeks, the Conference Chairman retired Justice Idris Kutigi announced.

FORMER Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, GCON, has accused the National Assembly, NASS, of sitting on relevant bills that would aid quick administration of justice in the country.

The Federal Government, yesterday, urged investors to discountenance claims of the imminent collapse of commercial banks that invested in the nation’s power sector.

The Presidential Amnesty Office has described as untrue the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that it is responsible for the oil pipeline explosion that occurred in Okrika in Rivers State on Sunday.

The relative peace between the nation’s two major political parties arising from the spate of insecurity in the land was shattered yesterday after Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and major political parties tore at one another over alleged indiscretions.

THE nation of Israel has never been a stranger to wars from the Biblical times to this day. They, therefore, built and developed structures and systems that make them succeed and dominate their environment and situation. Israel has become self-sufficient in almost all sectors of their economy through the use of lessons from numerous war experiences.

PRTOTESTS swept through most state capitals in the country including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as teachers, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, protested the death of 173 colleagues killed during the Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Yobe states.

Jos — Forty-eight hours after the twin bomb blasts in Jos main market which claimed 118 lives and several others injured, residents of Jos who narrowly escaped the blasts have recounted their experience even as the University of Jos disclosed yesterday, that the corpses of five of its students who died in the blast had not been found.

IBADAN—IFA priests across the country yesterday converged on Ibadan and put the blame of Boko Haram insurgents on both Christianity and Islamic religion.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate the judgment which was delivered by the Edo Local Government Election Appeal Tribunal, upholding the election of Mr. Sam Oboh of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the disputed chairmanship election of Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state.

ABEOKUTA—Vice President of European Investment Bank and former Prime Minister of Republic of Slovenia, Antom Rop has said that by 2050, there would have been an increase in urban population to the tune of 70% of the total population.

Abuja -The Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, and members of his technical crew are scheduled to depart the country on Sunday for London ahead of  Eagles’ international friendly with Scotland. Ademola Olajire, the Assistant Director, Communications, Nigeria Football Association (NFA) said that the team would depart aboard British Airways. The match scheduled to take […]