Worried by the spate of attacks by Boko Haram, the Federal Government Wednesday, said urgent steps have been taken to beef up security in all tertiary institutions in the country to provide protection for students and staff of the institutions.

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC, has distanced its Group Managing Director, Dr. Joseph T. Dawha from a running Facebook account opened in his name by suspected scam artistes.

Ukraine’s military accused pro-Russian fighters on Wednesday of violating a long-awaited truce at a flashpoint airport in rebel-held Donetsk just hours after it was agreed.

Nigeria’s main opposition party, All Progressives Congress, on Wednesday accused the country’s security services of being politically partisan and of conducting a “witch-hunt” against it before next year’s elections.

Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, the President, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said on Wednesday Nigeria needed to develop another strategy to stay competitive in the dwindling crude oil market.

A very wise man died in Benue State not so long ago. But before I tell the details of his death, I need to state that through the man’s life it has been revealed to me exclusively that the lack of wisdom in the world of today is because men marry only one wife. You can quote me on that.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo state, Rev.Peter Obadan and the Afemai Heritage and Cultural Studies, Wednesday described as wicked, President Goodluck Jonathan’s failure to declare three days of national mourning, in honour of those who died in the Kano mosque attack.

An inquest into a deadly church building collapse in Lagos that killed 116 people resumed on Wednesday but was immediately adjourned pending a legal challenge.

The First Lady,, Dame Patience Jonathan, has called for increased participation of physically challenged persons in the country’s political, economic and cultural activities.

More than 150 people, including 38 police, died in a Boko Haram raid on the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu this week, police, a rescue official and a health worker told AFP on Wednesday.