The Defence Headquarters said on Wednesday that the engineer crew member of the crashed Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 helicopter earlier declared missing had been found alive.

General Muhammadu Buhari was almost killed in the second bomb explosion that rocked Kaduna town this afternoon in which more than 20 persons were killed.

The Kaduna State Government on Wednesday imposed a 24-hour curfew within the metropolis following an explosion that occurred in two places.

A Gambian Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Omar Jasseh, has described members of Nigeria’s terror sect Boko Haram and of all groups that are fighting in the name of Islam as unpatriotic Muslims.

A second blast on Wednesday in Nigeria’s northern city of Kaduna has killed at least 17 people, the national rescue agency said, after an earlier suicide attack in the city killed at least 25.

Several people were Wednesday feared dead when an explosion rocked Kaduna. The blast occurred near Kano Motel along Alkali Road, in the metropolis.

Vanguard gathered that at least 25 people were killed in the suicide attack.

Mrs Fidelia Njeze, the Special Adviser to the President on NEPAD says NEPAD African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), has the sole mandate to monitor elections for good governance.

Ukraine’s western-backed government said Wednesday that it was preparing to slap sanctions on Russia for backing pro-Moscow separatists in the ex-Soviet state.

The Confederation of African Volleyball (CAVB) has announced Algeria as the host of the 2014 Girls’ U-18 African Nations Championship and the inaugural Women’s U-23 African Nations Championship.

The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Musa Maitafsir, said this in Sokoto when he spoke to 121 Masters’ Degrees students leaving for the Islamic University of Uganda.