Twenty-seven people were killed on Monday in a “terrorist attack” in the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria, the interior ministry said.

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Monday denied speculations that that his administration was planning to sack 10,000 workers.

Sensational pop twins Peter and Paul Okoye, better known as P-Square, arrived the country from South Africa in the earlier hours of Monday. P square won two awards- Best Group and Artist of the Decade at the 2015 MAMA awards held in Durban

The UN appealed on Monday for $20 million to stem outbreaks of bird flu in West Africa, a region still weakened by the Ebola crisis.

It is exactly a year that Patrick Oliver Sawyer (c.1974 – 24 July 2014), a deceased Liberian-American lawyer introduced the deadly Ebola Virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to stop attacking the immediate past President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, saying; “Dr Goodluck Jonathan is no longer the president of Nigeria, he should be allowed to live a private life devoid of mudslinging from elder statesmen like Chief Obasanjo.”

THE reported relocation of detained Boko Haram suspects from the northern part of the country to the South-East Ekwulobia Prison in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, has continued to generate controversy.

The response and alert systems put in place during the 2014 outbreak have either been dismantled or are dormant. Currently there is nothing on ground to detect if a traveller with Ebola arrives at any of the nation’s ports of entry. No screening processes exist for travellers living in, or visiting any of the nations currently battling Ebola.

President Muhamadu Buhari (PMB) is the only National Leader, elected to date, that actively and of his own volition, sort the popular Mandate of Nigerians. President Buhari took-out a bank loan to personally pay for his nomination papers; hence he could say “I belong to everyone, but belong to nobody”. Strange Bed-fellowship begins with deals and pledges before elections and are, usually, redeemed on assumption of Office.

THE Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai on Sunday continued his tour to the troubled Borno state which has been ravaged by activities of Boko Haram where he launched another operational code in Konduga Local Government Area’s tagged in Hausa ‘ Operation ‘Zaman Lafiya Dole’ ( Operation living in peace is a must).

ABEOKUTA—Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he believed in the political philosophy of the first Federal Minister of Social Services and Natural Resources, Adegoke Adelabu popularly called ‘Penkelemesi’ , describing him as his political role model.

The detained ex-Chief Security Officer to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Gordon Obua, has complained of being denied his medications despite being diabetic and hypertensive.

Ahead of the meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with officials of the Obama government this week, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Obama to “back up his expressed commitment on stolen assets by taking thoughtful and aggressive steps to deal with the problem with the seriousness and intensity that has been previously lacking.”

See the President’s arrival in pictures ; from the airport reception in his honour, to his official residence, the Blair House.

Former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has asked his two sons Aminu and Mustapha to forgive him over their prison experience as he claimed total responsibility for their ordeal in the hands of the law.