The United States on Wednesday issued financial sanctions against 11 individuals and a foreign entity it designated as “global terrorists”, vowing to disrupt the finances of the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda.

Rivers South-East Renaissance Movement, RISERM, has commended the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Rivers State for zoning its governorship ticket to the Rivers South-East senatorial district.

South Africa’s first gay-friendly mosque, which also allows Christian worshippers and women to lead prayers, could be closed unless it complies with municipal laws, an official said on Wednesday.

NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, counterpart, yesterday in Enugu, Enugu State, accused some multi-national oil companies of victimising their leaders because of union activities and threatened to shut the oil industry should the victimisation continue.

THE Federal Government, Wednesday, began a nationwide land titling and registration through the Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform, PTCLR.

A POPULAR saying goes thus: “What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.” To make learning more functional, fun and more student-centred, the Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAEC) in collaboration with Access Bank and Chips, Bits & Bytes Ltd., an e-learning solutions provider, have built an e-learning centre (21st Century classroom) at the Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja

An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday reconciled a couple, Mr Kolawole Isadipe and his wife, Abosede, whose 17-year-old marriage was on the brink of collapse.

THIS article could easily have been titled The Lost Generation of The North-East of Nigeria and it would still be apt.

One of the untold stories of the ongoing war in the Northeastern part of Nigeria, is the devastation it has brought to higher education in the North-East – especially the three front-line states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa; and to some extent, Gombe, Bauchi and Taraba.

PRESIDENT, American University of Nigeria (AUN), Dr. Margee Ensign, has said that the need to train communication students in investigative and objective news-writing and multimedia skills at this critical moment in Nigeria’s history, has made it necessary for the university to engage the services of a top Canadian communication expert, Professor Don North. He is to teach in the Communication and Multimedia Design program of the institution, according to a release by the university made available to Vanguard Learning.

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has said that politicians with criminal records will be stopped from contesting the 2015 general elections.

RT Rev. Olusola Odedeji of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Arch Bishop Lagos West Dioceses, in Lagos, has urged judges to seek divine wisdom from God in the discharge of their duties. Odedeji gave the charge at a special service to mark the opening of the new legal year 2014/2015 in Lagos state. Activities marking the new legal year are slated to hold from September 22 to 25.

Governor Babatune Fashola, SAN, of Lagos State has received an award for best Leadership and Governance in Africa, at the 2014 ESQ Nigerian Legal Awards.

The Governor of the Central Bank Governor (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said that the 2015 General Elections would not deplete the fortunes and reserves of the country.

NSUKKA—Nigeria’s first indigenous university, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, known for academic excellence is said to be facing hard times due to several years of maladministration by past administrators.

The Defence Headquarters confirmed that self-acclaimed leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Bashir, alias “Abubakar Shekau’’ had died in an encounter with troops at Konduga in Borno.