Pictures of young Russian children posing with mock AK-47 rifles and other weapons at a kindergarten have provoked a storm of controversy, but some defended them as patriotic education. Pictures making the rounds online show boys and girls around five or six years-old posing for cameras with mock-ups of AK-47 assault rifles, a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher in their hands.

Suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a Greek Orthodox seminary building on Mount Zion in Jerusalem early Thursday, 24 hours after a mosque was torched in the West Bank.

THE Presidency yesterday tonguelashed the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC and its leadership, saying that the Federal Government never underrated the capacity of members of the Boko Haram, even as it never waited for this long to rout out the insurgents as a political trump card.

A financial expert, Mr Sewa Wusu, on Wednesday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for adopting the “float’’ exchange rate mechanism to ensure price stability.

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the Nigerian National Petrolium Corporation, NNPC to pay the controversial $1.485 into the account of Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC for disbursment.