The Chadian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Isah Braimah, yesterday, exonerated his country of funding or arming the Boko Haram insurgents.

Frontline Insurance and asset management group, AXA has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Assur Africa Holdings (AAH), owners of a 77% stake in Mansard Insurance plc.

Fighting between heavily-armed Islamists and police in the centre of Chechnya’s capital Grozny on Thursday left 19 dead and many injured, the second attack since October, officials said.

Turning Nigeria around will be difficult but can be done-Atiku

A Self-acclaimed President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Com. Ali Wali has said that President Goodluck Jonathan was booed at the ObaFemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ife, because his administration gives credence to hoodlums, who were brandished as students by his aide on youth and student matters.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved over N430.5billion for the construction of 17 roads and bridges across 15 states of the federation.

As All Progressives Congress, APC, holds it’s governorship primary in Lagos today to choose its standard bearer for the 2015 elections, one of the party’s aspirants, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, who also the state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure has promised to focus on the development of vocational and skill training for residents of the state, among other developmental programmes, if he emerges winner.

President Vladimir Putin pledged on Thursday that Russia would not scale back its ties with the West despite bitter ongoing confrontation over the Ukraine crisis.

RECENTLY, the media was awash with stories of how the Department of State Security, DSS, has been able to crack a syndicate of Permanent Voter Cards cloners operating from a location, which the All Progressives Congress, APC, now claims is its Data Centre.

FOLLOWING reports that the impeachment notice against President Goodluck Jonathan will be presented on the floor of the Senate when it resumes from the recess on December 16, the Presidency yesterday pleaded with the Senate that the interest of the country and the protection of the nation’s democracy should be paramount.