A car bomb suicide attack targeting a senior military officer rocked Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding 24, officials said.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says it has in the past one year compelled erring banks to refund the sum of N17 billion illegal deductions and other unauthorised transaction to customers.

Israeli troops on Tuesday killed two Palestinians named as suspects in the June murder of three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank that sparked a deadly spiral of tit-for-tat violence.

GOVERNOR Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, has described the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole PDP candidate for 2015 Presidential election as undemocratic.

ABEOKUTA— The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it would unravel the circumstance that prompted a 60-year-old retired Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sunday Isokpehi, to shoot himself and his 40-year-old wife, Gladys, to death.

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday confirmed that workers might have been defrauded by one of its business partners, even as it assured workers who deposited money into the NLC-Kriston-Lally account, to which NLC is a signatory that “their funds are safe”.

Nigeria and Cameroon were, yesterday, locked in an arguement over who killed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and where he was killed.

AS Lagos State Government continues preliminary investigation into the immediate and remote cause(s) of the collapsed six-storey Guest House of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, SCOAN, there is anxiety in the polity on whether or not the right thing will be done.

A30-year-old man has allegedly raped a 20-year-old girl (names withheld) and uploaded pictures, taken during the act, on the social media.

PASTOR Tunde Bakare is many things to different people, depending on what side of the prism you are viewing him from. One thing that is constant however, is; his stand or position on any issue. You can never find him sitting on the fence, he never wavers, he takes a stand on any issue that he is presenting, no matter how others sees it.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday, warned principals and heads of schools in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, not to admit any child with high temperature or with symptoms of malaria

WHILE opening the current session of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, made comments which some interpreted as meaning that Nigeria is not even contemplating holding the 2015 general elections.

WORRIED over the distortion and violation of the master plan in the nation’s capital territory, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday, threatened that his administration was prepared to step on toes in restoring the distorted master plan to its original plan as conceived by the founding fathers.

Resident Doctors in Lagos, have petitioned the State House of Assembly, seeking its intervention over alleged refusal of the state government to pay their August salary.

Dr. Abdul Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, son of Nigeria’s first and only prime minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was, just a year ago, a rabid supporter of a second term for President Goodluck Jonathan. Abdul Jhalil, who holds a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry, was a foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the United States where he lived for about 46 years