President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja said Nigeria stands to benefit from his forthcoming meeting with President Barack Obama, hoping it would strengthen the bilateral ties between Nigeria and the USA.

Haram have claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in Chad’s capital N’Djamena that left 38 people dead, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday.

Coleen Rooney is pregnant with her third child with husband Wayne Rooney.The delighted presenter and designer shared the happy news on her official Twitter page on Wednesday night.”Baby number 3 is on the way …… January!!

Manchester City are unlikely to meet Liverpool’s £50m asking price for Raheem Sterling, reports the Manchester Evening News.Although the Sterling saga took another twist on Wednesday, as the 20-year-old forward phoned in sick and failed to attend Liverpool training , it is understood a third bid is not imminent.City’s stance comes just a day after they cooled their interest in midfielder Paul Pogba over Juventus’ £71m asking price.

AFTER 10 months of sitting, the Lagos Coroner’s Inquest into the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), yesterday, in Ikeja indicted the church for “criminal negligence” and recommended that it be prosecuted. 116 people died in the tragic incident.

The police authorities in Kano Thursday rolled out tanks and backed by heavily armed personnel within and around Federal high court situated along New Court road Kano in anticipation of the arraignment of former Jgawa State governor Sule Lamido and his son before Justice Riman Fatu over an alleged money laundering. 

ABUJA—In the spirit of reconciliation in the House of Representatives, the camp supporting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has announced conceding the position of the House Leader to the camp supporting Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday, dissociated himself from the amendment of the 8th Senate Standing Rules, saying he was no longer a senator when the rules were made.

“How are the mighty fallen, for Nigerian military which recorded great achievements in Burma, Zaire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan now to be helped by Niger, Chad and Cameroon”. These words sum up President Muhammadu Buhari’s lamentations, yesterday, on the state of the military he inherited as he hosted a delegation of Bring Back Our Girls led by Dr. Oby Ezekwesili and Mrs. Mariam Uwaise,

AFTER 10 months of sitting, the Lagos Coroner’s Inquest into the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), yesterday, in Ikeja indicted the church for “criminal negligence” and recommended that it be prosecuted. 116 people died in the tragic incident.

The Sultan of Sokoto who is also President-General, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar Sa’ad 111, has urged Muslims in the country to watch out for the Night of Majesty as the month of Ramadan entered the 20th day on Tuesday.

BENIN CITY—THERE was pandemonium Monday at Uselu quarters in Benin City as a 44 year-old man, identified as Osayande Ekhator, reportedly died during a deliverance in one of the new generation churches, Hope Ministries, also known as Holy Ghost Deliverance Centre. Vanguard gathered that the death of the man angered the youths in the area who stormed the church with dangerous weapons, destroying its properties, including musical instruments, electrical appliances and vehicles parked in the premises.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has criticised Governor Ayodele Fayose over his recent comment on the bailout fund released by President Muhammadu Buhari to states, saying it is ingratitude taken too far.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos yesterday, directed the Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Other Special Offences to carry out full enforcement of the law restricting street trading in the metropolis.

Sources close to the leadership of the Boko Haram insurgents have told Vanguard that the group might have agreed to hold talks with the new leadership in Nigeria with the aim of ending the six-year-old insurgency in the country.