The House of Representatives on Thursday suspended the debate on the deployment of military personnel for election purposes in the country.
The House had been considering the issue following a motion by its Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC-Lagos).

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has warned personnel allegedly threatening to embark on strike over unpaid arrears of promotion of dire consequences of breaching extant rules and regulations.

A German former nurse who has admitted killing over 30 hospital patients with lethal injections in a thrill-seeking game to try to revive them apologised on Thursday to relatives of the victims.

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court, Wuse Zone 2, on Thursday sentenced one Musa Kabiru of Angwan Dutse Alaji, FCT, to one-year and six months in prison for joint act and theft.

“Let me use this platform to promise my Nigeria country men and women that we will rout Boko Haram,’’ Jonathan said at the Naval Dockyard Ltd in Victoria Island venue of the inauguration.

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other affiliates have advised the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the election rescheduled for March 12.

Rev. Uma Ukpai of Victory Cathedral Fellowship Center, Uyo, Akwa Ibom, on Thursday announced that the church would stop communion for members who had not collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

A sixty five-year-old man, Yahaya Bankole, was on Thursday charged with stealing rams and cows valued at N830,000 in an Ojo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Bankole, who is a trader at Alaba Rago Market, Lagos is facing a count charge of theft.

The Zone 10 Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Sokoto, say it will no longer grant bail to any thug arrested with weapons during political rallies. The AIG in charge of the zone, Mr Bala Hassan, made the disclosure in Sokoto on Thursday at a stakeholders meeting with the leadership of the political parties. “Henceforth, any thug arrested with a knife, cutlass or any other type of deadly weapon will be charged to court.

A childless couple in India has decided to bequeath their entire property, house, land and bank deposits to their pet monkey, news reports said on Thursday. Sabista and Brijesh Srivastava, residents of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh State, have set up a trust that would oversee their property after their death. According to the couple, their main beneficiary will be their monkey, Chunmun.

Following the suspension of strike by the Kwara branch of health workers under the umbrella of Coalition of Health Sector Unions (COHESU) on February 3, patients are now patronising public owned hospitals in the state for medical treatment.

Swedish police arrested a woman on Thursday on suspicion of keeping her daughters confined to an apartment amid media reports that they were locked away for a decade. Police suspected the 59-year-old woman had “restricted her children’s freedom… for quite a few years,” spokeswoman Ewa-Gun Westford told newsmen.

“If any farmer wants to use this first rain to plant, such farmer should ensure the storage of enough water to water their crops if the rain did not continue,”

Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that only card readers would be used for accreditation of voters for the general elections.

Armed forest guards have shot dead a man-eating tiger in southern India after the animal attacked and killed a farmer and a tea plantation worker, an official said Thursday.