President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday left Abuja for New York to attend the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly, Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said in a statement.

As part of the preparation for the digital switch over next year, Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has signed contract for the modernization and digitization of the Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS.

Students are to return to school on Monday after an enforced summer break because of Ebola, but with lingering fears about the virus and calls for a further delay by a major teachers’ union.

An Egyptian military aircraft crashed on a training mission on Sunday after a technical failure, killing six soldiers, the army said.

Pastor TB Joshua on Sunday said he would travel to South Africa in the coming weeks to meet families and survivors of a building collapse at his church that killed scores.

Shiite rebels seized the Yemeni government headquarters Sunday and the premier resigned as violence raged despite a UN announcement of a power-sharing deal to end days of fighting, officials said.

Dr. Austin Tam-George, a former lecturer at the University of Cape Town, currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Communication and Corporate Studies, Lagos, discusses with Sunday Vanguard. His PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, was based on the Niger Delta crisis. He spoke with Jide Ajani, Editor

Pope Francis warned during a visit to Albania on Sunday that religion can never be used to justify violence, making apparent reference to the bloodshed wreaked by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Mr Ganiyu Tunji Adebayo made his name in the aviation sector where he rose to become the first indegenous General Manager of the National Aviation Handling Company of Nigeria (NAHCO) and building it to a firm worth a billion dollars. Now in retirement, Adebayo continues to serve humanity through Tunji Adebayo Foundation. The philanthropist speaks on the Foundation which clocked 10 on August 17 while the anniversary will be celebrated on September 26

Pope Francis travels to Albania on Sunday for a packed one-day visit that will spotlight the country as a model of inter-religious harmony, amid turmoil in the Middle East and rising intolerance in Europe.

Nigerian military were having trouble contending with Asari’s guerrilla warfare. Small, highly mobile and heavily armed militant forces in fast boats struck across the Niger Delta targeting oil installations and military posts. Nigeria’s oil output at one point dropped to as low as 600,000 barrels per day and on average was halved to one million barrels per day.

Inspite of the promise made by the Federal Government to foot the hospital bills of the victims of the Nyanya blasts and donations by individuals and corporate organizations to the Boko Haram Victims Relief Fund, Mrs. Monica Solomon, who suffered severe burns in the May 1 Nyanya blasts, has alleged being abandoned at the Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital.

Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, has described his mother, Ahaja Aishetu Oshiomhole, as “a strict disciplinarian’’ who gave him good moral upbringing.

Heavy gunfire erupted around the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday, just hours after NATO’s top military commander said there was a ceasefire “in name only” on the ground.

Ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin, openly stated his political ambitions on Saturday by announcing he would be ready, if called upon, to lead Russia in times of crisis.