APPARENTLY disturbed by the allegation made by the Department of State Services, DSS, that the All Progressives Congress, APC, planned to hack into the database of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the House of Representatives, Tuesday, set up a committee to investigate the matter.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Tuesday, said the report of the probe panel he set up when he held the sway as the president of the country did not indict the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen . Muhammadu Buhari of any corruption while he was administering Petroleum Trust Fund .

IKOT EDAH—ONE person was killed, 60 houses razed and over 400 persons rendered homeless in a disgraceful inter-communal crisis that broke out, weekend, between youths of Ikot Umiang and Ikot Edah communities, Nkpat Enin Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State.

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has said General Muhammadu Buhari will lift the veil of secrecy and shadiness that has characterised the transactions of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) if he is elected into office in the February 14 presidential election.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Deputy Governor nominee, Dr. Okwu Joseph Nnana, was confirmed ,Tuesday, by the Senate after scaling screening.

“A minister should know that homosexuality is not a disease, that it is not abnormal,’’ Revat Mishra, a medical doctor and activist said.

Discovery Airways was Tuesday suspended from operating any flight as its Air Operator’s Certificate, AOC, has been suspended by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA. This suspension would be in force pending the outcome of a comprehensive review of the Airlines operations to be carried out by NCAA.

The number of people who died after drinking allegedly poisoned beer in Mozambique has risen to 71, state-owned Radio Mocambique reported on Tuesday.

THE next House of Representatives would be short of experienced legislators following their inability to secure tickets to return to the Green Chamber.

French Muslim groups called for calm and respect for freedom of opinion on Tuesday ahead of the release of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo magazine which features a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Tuesday that there was deliberate distortion of facts and figures about its operations by some politicians.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has restated its call for a meeting of the leadership of the APC and the PDP to stem the rising cases of violence ahead of next month’s polls.

The Director-General of the National Automotive Council (NAC), Mr Aminu Jalal, said on Tuesday that the nation’s automobile industry had the potential to generate over 200,000 jobs.

Alhaji Maitama Sule, an elder statesman, was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations during the second republic. Before then, as the Minister of Mines and Power in the first republic, the oil portfolio was under his ministry. While at the UN, Sule chaired the committee which sought to end apartheid in the now independent South Africa. In this interview, he explains why many first republic politicians, including himself, ended in penury

Cameroon’s army has said it killed 143 Boko Haram fighters, with the government saying it was the biggest defeat it had inflicted to date on the Islamist group.