Twenty-one-year-old student, Chioma Okafor, who contested as Miss Bayelsa on Saturday night won the “Miss Intercontinental Nigeria Beauty Pageant 2014”.

ABOUT four persons where feared dead Sunday in Ibaa community, Emohua local government area as rampaging cultists took over the community shooting sporadically.

Liberia’s leader Sunday said she had sacked 10 senior government officials who defied an order to return to the west African nation to lead the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak.

Forty people have now died as a result of a building collapse at the megachurch of one of Nigeria’s most famous preachers and televangelists, the country’s main rescue body said on Sunday.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the rallies being held across the country by the so-called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) represent an assault on the intelligence and sensibilities of Nigerians, at a time of unprecedented security and health challenges in the country.

Against the backdrop of the insurgency ravaging the North-east, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, recently created 30,000 polling units in preparation for the 2015 general elections. Chief Goddy Uwazurike, President of Aka Ikenga, Igbo professionals group, who was also a delegate at the just concluded National Conference, bares his mind on the issue among others

Gov. Danbaba Suntai of Taraba arrived Abuja on Saturday at 10 p.m. after months of medical treatment in the United Kingdom.

THE matter of who will be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the gubernatorial election in Rivers state in 2015 is certainly going to be a major headache for the party because any mistake in this critical exercise can be catastrophic, given the fact that the state is currently under the rule of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with all the advantages that go with incumbency.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole has expressed satisfaction with the quality of work at the on going Central Hospital project Benin City.

Ukraine on Sunday accused pro-Russian rebels of jeopardising the fragile peace push by intensifying their attacks on government positions despite a nine-day old ceasefire.

Corporate organizations have been told not to employ staff without conducting background screening as hasty recruitment could expose them to fraud. The appeal is apt particularly in the face of fraud and other unethical behaviours now prevalent in corporate organizations across the country

A boat sank Sunday in bad weather off eastern Indonesia, killing at least 14 people and leaving 12 others missing, an official said.

A Nigerian Air Force jet has been missing for two days after disappearing in Adamawa, where troops are fighting Boko Haram insurgents, the military said on Sunday.

Prime Minister David Cameron will gather some of his top security advisors on Sunday to discuss Britain’s response to an online video showing the murder of an aid worker by Islamic State militants.

North Korea said Sunday it had sentenced detained American Matthew Miller to six years of hard labour for “hostile” acts against Pyongyang.