THE successful extradition of suspected Nyanya motor park bomb mastermind, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche restates the importance of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. The dispatch with which the extradition processes was concluded was remarkable.

A Florida man who has not recently traveled outside the country is the first person in the United States to get the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus locally, officials said Thursday.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved 10 days paternity leave for any male civil servant in the state whose wife delivers a new baby.
The measure is to afford them the opportunity of attending to developmental needs of the child.

Muhammad Salim Al-Rahili is never the richest man on earth neither is he the most powerful in the Muslim world, but the seventy-year-old man is regarded in the Arabia world particularly in Madinah where he is based as one of the oldest providers of iftar meals to Muslims in the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. For about over sixty years,

Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, erstwhile national chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In this interview, Onu bares his mind on how he was shortchanged at the 1999 national convention of the defunct ANPP in Kaduna, his role in the emergence of APC, he assesses the Jonathan administration, the security challenges in the country, among other issues. A chemical engineer, an administrator, Onu was the first executive governor of Abia State.

Muslims urged to see politics as part of Islam

The Muslim Prayer Warrior group has unveiled a new Islamic Prayer society tagged Al-Muwafiq.

As the outcry over indiscriminate increase of import duty by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, continues, Managing Director Zekwes Ventures Limited, Charles Nzekwe, has petitioned the Federal Ministry of Finance, the supervising ministry of the NCS.

UMUAHIA — THE Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Wednesday, arrested two men with the corpse of a two-year-old girl.

Brown Ebewele, a former Commissioner of Sports in Edo, has described as unfortunate the withdrawal of the court case against the Aminu Maigari-led board of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA).

ABEOKUTA — The Ogun State Police Command yesterday, said it had arrested two fleeing kidnappers in Ebonyi State after they allegedly kidnapped their victims at Molipa, Ijebu Ode on July 8.

The Federal Government has commenced moves to tackle unfair business practices, in its determination to provide a fair and competitive environment for industry, trade and investment.

ABUJA—The Coordinator, National Information Centre, NIC, Mr. Mike Omeri, yesterday, provided more explanations on the proposed $1 billion foreign loan by the Federal Government, saying it was not only meant
to fight Boko Haram insurgents.

Nigeria have met Fifa’s conditions to lift its ban on the country after a regional high court quashed an order restraining the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from office.

Scientists have found that an infection with malaria pathogens changes the scent of infected mice, making those infected more attractive to mosquitoes. These are the findings of a team of researchers from ETH Zurich and Pennsylvania State University in a new study.