Two explosions ripped through a market in the city of Maiduguri on Monday, witnesses said, nearly a week after two female suicide bombers attacked the same area, killing more than 45 people.

LAW Mefor’s recently published piece, “2015 AND ECHOES OF ANARCHY” is quite revealing. The piece captures the unguarded pronouncements of leading members of the major opposition political party in Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress, APC, as preparations for the 2015 general elections gather momentum.

Former military Head of State and APC presidential aspirant, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has urged Nigerians to be security conscious so as to curb the activities of insurgents in the country.

A former board member of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Alhaji Sa’idu Gumburawa, has said that the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 will sustain the success of the ongoing transformation agenda.

A South Korean fishing vessel with 60 people aboard sank Monday in the Bering Sea, leaving at least one crew member dead and dozens missing, officials said.

The UN has pledged its “full support” to Nigeria to end terrorism following the attack on Kano Central Mosque on Friday, which left many worshippers dead and several others injured.

The Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma in Edo, is to host the 10th edition of the Client Counseling Competition among Nigerian law students, according to a statement.

The statemen, signed by the AAU Organising Committee Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Akhigbe, was made available to newsmen on Monday in Benin.

“Terrorists” in Tunisia have abducted and decapitated an off-duty policeman, media reports on Monday cited the interior ministry as saying.

A suicide attack at a funeral in northern Afghanistan killed at least nine people on Monday, officials said, underlining nationwide insecurity as NATO troops end their 13-year war this month.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent declaration to, once again, vie for the Presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has deepened the discourse on his achievements thus far.

As a student in the University, I used hard drugs. I graduated several years ago and have served in NYSC. I used to have an attitude when I was taking drugs but I no longer have them. I dated many ladies and dumped them and I was extremely extroverted.

A group, Elite Youths Development Initiative, has denied the claim in certain quarters that the Federal Government was planning to bomb three northern universities and blame the Boko Haram sect for the heinous action.

SENATOR Alkali Jajere representing Yobe South Senatorial District has said that there was no auspicious time to commence the impeachment proceedings of President Goodluck Jonathan than now before the insurgents would wipe out his constituents from the surface earth.

KANO State Governor and a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress (APC), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday in Enugu described the adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2015 general elections as a sign of weakness.

Multiple explosions suspected to be Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) has rocked Damaturu, the Yobe State capital while sporadic gunshots engulfed the city of troubled Maiduguri on Monday morning living many residents trapped in their houses for fear of their lives.