The United Nation Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA) has decried the practice of female genital mutilation across the country and call for action to protect adolescent girls rights and health.

A female member of a congregation, Kemi Abbas, on Wednesday appeared in an Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with allegedly stealing her pastor’s N52,000.

An American doctor who recovered from Ebola has donated his blood to a second patient, a freelance cameraman who is being treated in Nebraska, a hospital spokesman said Wednesday.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from going ahead with its plans to conduct a bye-election in Adamawa State on Saturday.

Eighteen people in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi have died after drinking homemade liquor during Eid holidays, officials said Wednesday, highlighting the dangers of moonshine in a country where Muslims are barred from drinking.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, was doing on the plane that illegally ferried US$9.3 million to South Africa, where Asari Dokubo, another Nigerian and an Israeli were arrested, according to a published report.

The 7th edition of the Indomie Independence Day Award for Heroes of Nigeria, an initiative of Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Nigeria’s leading noodles brand -Indomie Instant Noodles will hold on Saturday October 11, 2014 in Lagos.

JOS—Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, North Central Zone, yesterday, warned individuals and groups to desist from making unguarded utterances on the person and office of the president of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, over the alleged $9.3m arms deal in South Africa.

Following the publication in the Vanguard, on the issue of the so-called ‘withdrawal of Professor Emeritus’, I am forced to exercise my right of reply and to make some comments.

When Senator Pius Ewherido died prematurely in June 2013, the Urhobo people grieved and prayed that such a loss should not be their lot again. Unfortunately, just one year after, another Urhobo personage, General Patrick Aziza (rtd) fell to the Grim Reaper.

Justice Ademola Adeniyi has ordered that the former deputy governor of Adamawa state, Mr. Bala Ngilari, should be swore-in as the substantive governor of the state.

At least 14 people were killed as protests by pro-Kurdish demonstrators raged across Turkey over the government’s lack of action to save the Syrian town of Kobane, officials said Wednesday.

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy appealed for calm Wednesday after a Madrid nurse contracted the deadly Ebola virus, promising “transparency” over the scare which has sparked fierce criticism of national health safeguards.

The Federal Government has appealed to financiers of the Boko Haram insurgents to desist from sponsoring the terrorists and surrender to security forces as some members of the sect had done recently.

The Chairman of Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme has attributed the delay in the passage of the Nigeria Social Security Act to legislative processes of harmonising the versions passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.