Operatives of the Lagos State Fire service are battling to put off a raging fire on two buldings at 155 BDG, Abule Ado, on Mile 2 – Badagry expressway.

At least 29 people were reportedly killed with many others sustained gunshot wounds when suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect attacked Dille community and other surrounding villages of Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno state.

A British politician resigned from the House of Lords Tuesday after a tabloid newspaper published footage of him allegedly snorting cocaine with prostitutes.

A renowned diplomat, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Monday, counselled President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to bring together all major stakeholders in economic management in order to brainstorms on ways to revive the nation’s ailing economy.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has raised an alarm over alleged clampdown on its leaders and supporters by Governor Ayo Fayose, saying the hounding of its leaders into jail is a fulfillment of the governor’s declaration at his inauguration ceremony last year to run APC leaders out of the state.

The fracas attracted the attention of the police who raced to the place and the church was locked up. That was not the first time members of the congregation would engage in such a show of shame. Sometime last year, precisely December 3, 2014, hell was also let loose at the national headquarters of the church located in Enugu when the two warring factions engaged in a bloody clash that left no fewer than five persons seriously injured, while four cars parked at the premises were burnt beyond recognition during the free for all that ensued.

Governors of Edo and Kebbi State, Adams Oshiomole and Atiku Bagudu have stated that the government of All Progressives Congress, APC was not bent of removal the deputy senate president, senator Ike Ekwerenmadu of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP from office.

India’s former president and top scientist A. P. J. Kalam, who played a lead role in the country’s nuclear weapons tests, died on Monday, a hospital official said. He was 83.

A picture they say speaks a thousand word, because of its ability to quickly convey so much meaning with so little, if any, explanation.

Three villagers were beheaded during weekend raids in Cameroon by Boko Haram insurgents from neighbouring Nigeria, who killed another four people in a separate raid overnight, security forces said Monday.