The United Nations condemned on Friday the “gruesome” killing of a wounded Palestinian assailant by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, after a video of the death spread widely online.

The committee set up to probe contracts awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) from 2011 to 2015 has indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens.

The Kano State Hisbah Board said it had arrested 31 young girls for alleged involvement in immoral acts.

Two sailors have been freed a month after they were taken hostage when their ship was attacked off Nigeria, French oil services company Bourbon said on Friday.

OPEN defecation is a practice whereby people defecate in spaces not meant for that purpose unmindful of its unhealthy and unhygienic repercussions. From Agege to Apapa, Epe to Badia, Ikorodu to Badagry and other such communities in the state, it is common to see people on the highways disembarking from their cars to defecate openly along the road.

AS Nigerians join the rest of Christians across the globe to mark the solemnity of Good Friday, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death as part of the Easter celebrations, clerics and politicians have called on Nigerians to imbibe the virtues of peace, love, sacrifice and forgiveness which are the lessons of Easter.

The barrage of comments, criticisms, questions and name-calling on the social media that have trailed the announcement of an intention to import grass to improve the business of production of cattle, sheep and goats in Nigeria is rather incredible.

Mr. Gbenga Durojaye, the lawyer representing Mrs Yetunde Osijo, the woman detained in prison custody over traffic dispute between her and a Lagos Magistrate, Mrs Funke Sule-Hamzat, has said that he is preparing for a long drawn legal battle over the matter.

The Mile 12 Market is located in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, along Lagos –Ikorodu Road. It is noted for perishable food items such as: pepper, onions, yams, fruits, tomatoes, yam flour, vegetable and palm oils, cash crops and other numerous edible food items.

The run-up to the federal and state legislative election reruns in Rivers State had been marked with much bloodshed running up to the dozens. So it was not totally surprising that last Saturday’s elections were also characterised by much violence.

Retired permanent secretaries in Imo State, have appealed to Governor Rochas Okorocha to “exercise some measure of love” and pay their outstanding arrears of stipends.

AN election organized by the Academic Staff Union, ASUU, of the Anambra State–owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University to select its senate member for the university’s Council ended in fiasco with ballot boxes smashed and thrown away.

EXECUTIVE Director of Victims Support Fund recently set up by the Federal Government to restore livelihood and set the background for reconciliation and peace building among victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North- East region of the country, Prof. Sunday Ochochue, has disclosed that the body had spent over N200 million in the provision of school books, kits and payment of voluntary teachers and workers in Edo State IDP camp.

SECOND Republic politician and Anambra State Chairman of the defunct Nigeria Peoples Party, NPP, Chief Guy Ikokwu, has urged the Federal Government to release without delay the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu because his continued incarceration is not in the best interest of the country.

THE Ijaw All Progressives Congress, APC, Support Group, has alleged that the committee set up by the state government to deal with civil servants for their partisan roles during the last governorship election was targeted at supporters of the opposition parti