President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Elmau at the G7 summit, Germany, reaffirmed his administration’s total commitment to ending Boko Haram’s insurgency in the shortest time possible. This is containded in a news release issued by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Malam Garba Shehu.

A Pakistani man has murdered his four young daughters in the central province of Punjab, police said Monday. The crimes occurred in Chak Jumra town, around 215 kilometres (135 miles) northwest of Lahore. “Irshad Ahmed, a resident of Chak Jumra strangled his four daughters, two sets of twins, late Sunday night,” local police official Ghulam Shabir told newsmen.

A Nigerian businessman based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr Emmanuel Onyekaozuru, 50, was killed on Sunday by gunmen. The President of Nigeria Union in South Africa, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, on Monday told newsmen in Pretoria, South Africa, that Onyekaozuru was shot by two gunmen.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday charged lawmakers in the 8th Assembly in the state to make laws that would better the lot of Lagosians. Ambode gave the charge at the proclamation/inauguration of the 8th assembly, at the Lagos State House of Assembly complex, Alausa. The governor said the proclamation was in accordance with Section 105 Subsection 3 of the 1999 Constitution. He charged the lawmakers to put the people at the centre of all their actions.

The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Kola Oluwawole, says the legislative house under his leadership will do better than the past four assemblies in the state. Oluwawole spoke at the prayer session organised for the lawmakers to kick start the fifth assembly in Ado-Ekiti on Monday. He said that the new assembly would achieve development and growth for Ekiti State, through robust legislation and meaningful collaboration with the Executive arm of government.

Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee sprinter who shot dead his girlfriend, is scheduled to be freed on parole on August 21 after serving just 10 months in jail, officials said Monday. The proposed release date provoked an angry reaction from the parents of model and television presenter Reeva Steenkamp, 29, who Pistorius shot […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that members of the Boko Haram sect neither know God nor believe in Him, promising that his Administration is totally committed to ending the group’s insurgency in the shortest possible time.

Kano state Governor, Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje has nominated the outgoing President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Mohammed Garba as Commissioner.

The Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Monday fixed June 11 for hearing the bail applications of 11 bank officials allegedly involved in the N8 billion CBN currency scam. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Kolawole Babalola, Adeola Olaniran and Togun Phillips, dismissed employees of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others on June 3.

All flags were flown at half-mast as Ghana began a 3-day national mourning for people who lost their lives through a huge fire at a fuel filling station and in floods in Accra on Wednesday.

A 32-year-old driver, Samuel Adam, who allegedly stabbed a policewoman with a broken bottle, was arraigned on Monday in Lagos.

A coalition of Youth groups in Edo state has urged the newly elected lawmakers both at the state and National Assembly to work in the interest of the people.

Following President Muhammad Buhari’s directives to military to move its command centre to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital fight Boko Haram sect, the authorities of the Nigerian Army has heeded to the order and concluded arrangement for all Service Chiefs to move in tomorrow (Tuesday).

Some football enthusiasts on Monday charged the U-20 Flying Eagles to maintain their current winning tempo at the ongoing U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.

Death toll from a heat wave in Pakistan rose to more than two dozen people, officials said on Monday.