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.

The minister of health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu was yesterday endorsed by the caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ebonyi State as a consensus candidate for the 2015 gubernatorial election.

By Ikenna Asomba

LAGOS—Against the backdrop of reactions that have continued to trail the recent collapse of the six-storey guest house attached to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun Egbe, Lagos, the founder, Prophet T.B. Joshua, has again fired at several commentators, describing their alleged negative commentaries as an act of destroying Nigeria’s image before the international community.

IF Oliver Okwara had joined the Nigerian Army now, many would have attributed it to the biting unemployment in the country.

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) has said that he has recovered and would soon be back in the country.

Recently, the Federal Government paid a legacy debt in excess of N213 billion to, among others, boost the supply of gas to the power sector. However, SEBASTINE OBASI writes that Nigerians have remained apprehensive over a number of issues undermining the sustainable supply of electricity as promised by government.