Failed Coup: Attackers were from US, Germany, UK—Gambia President

Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday said he was personally in support of the creation of New Gurara State out of the present Kaduna State.

Prof. Wale Oladipo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is the best candidate for Nigeria in 2015 general elections.

The Nigerian Army has dismissed 203 soldiers after a secret court martial held in the dead of the night, for allegedly disobeying a direct order from their commanding officer

Cameroon has said it is recruiting 20,000 more defence and security forces to fight Boko Haram following reports that the terrorist group, based in Nigeria, is recruiting young Cameroonians to fight for them.

When Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, during the inauguration of his second-coming told thousands of Ekiti people, who had converged at the popular Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, Ado Ekiti on October 16, last year that he would create a special ministry to be called Ministry of Stomach Infrastructures, many political observers within and outside the state took his words with a pinch of salt.

A schizophrenic Florida man decapitated his mother with an ax on New Year’s Eve because he was fed up with her nagging, US authorities and media said Thursday.

Steven Gerrard is set to make the shock announcement that he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, according to reports on Thursday.

President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with Muslims across the country as they join their counterparts around the world to commemorate Eid-el-Maulud (the birth of Prophet Muhammad) on Friday.

The police command in Kano State said it arrested 482 armed robbery suspects and recovered 85 arms and 546 ammunition in 2014.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was confronted by an angry supporter during his side’s 2-0 loss at Southampton in the Premier League on New Year’s Day.

Egypt’s top court Thursday ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera reporters whose imprisonment on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood triggered global outrage, but kept them in custody pending a new hearing.

UGHELLI—RESIDENTS of Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, were Wednesday night thrown into apprehension as suspected armed bandits went on rampage, killing a retired principal, Chief E. Ekee on Ogbojuku Street and also shot the Publisher of Rainbow Newspaper, Mr. Matthias Ogbagah on Ogodo Street.

Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa is the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District. Senator Okowa’s recent political feat in upturning political permutations in the contest for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in his native Delta State was only reflective of the deep rooted political sagacity of the medical doctor turned politician. Senator Okowa’s political ascendancy has been on the horizon since his days first as a local government secretary, local government chairman and subsequently, commissioner in the second civilian government of Delta State.

THE December 24, 2014 nationwide redeployment of 37 Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, by the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, popped up six men, whose professional wisdom is expected to guide the 2015 general elections in the South West geo-political zone.