Around 12,000 Nigerians said to have been expelled from Cameroon after fleeing Boko Haram jihadists have begun returning home, authorities in Abuja said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it had received 1,121 of the returnees at the Sahuda border post in northeastern Adamawa state.

“How much time (children) spend doing cognitive activities during the vacation is therefore highly decisive,” she said. “All in all the study illustrates what an enormous role school plays in this.”

The seven man ad-hoc investigation committee set up by the speaker of Osun state House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salam to investigate the petition of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede against governor Rauf Aregbesola and her deputy, Mrs Titilayo Laoye Tomori has today submitted its report to the house.

“Every legitimate government deserves respect of the people, we must support our governments; but that does not mean we cannot criticise them but it must be constructive,”

“The victim, a 16-year-old girl, was returning from school when the accused called her under the pretext of asking her for a direction. “Before she knew what was happening….

She said the policeman died at the spot after tanker ran over him. The police image maker said the driver attempted to escape with the vehicle, but for the intervention of other members of the taskforce who used motorcycles to pursue him.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Wednesday released a video calling for lone wolf attacks in the U.S., France and other `disbeliever’ nations.

Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors has charged President Muhammad Buhari to retool his fight against corruption through effective costing of projects and infrastructure.

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai yesterday said that the ongoing pulling down of houses and business premises erected on lands belonging to public institutions in Kaduna and Zaria was not the same as a “demolition exercise “but recovery of government lands”.

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has said that the lifting of arms embargo to Nigeria by United States of America, USA, was the first diplomatic breakthrough of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, called on all Nigerians and the relevant stakeholders in the entertainment industry to join hands with his administration in the fight against piracy in the country.

The Governor of Osun state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola yesterday said his administration will not relent in its efforts at changing the face of Osun through urbanisation, in realisation that the built environment is the crowning glory of all civilisation.

London was braced Wednesday for the second shutdown of the Underground within a month as trade unions stage a strike over plans to run Tube trains all night at weekends.

Photos of a dog buried alive up to its head in France sparked an outpouring of anger on social media Wednesday, and police said the owner was taken into custody.

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins on Tuesday praised President Muhammadu Buhari for dissociating Nigeria from same sex marriage.