Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Sunday said the renovation of 4,000 primary schools across the state would gulp N60 billion.

The umbrella body for Nigerian Muslim groups on Sunday condemned the mob killing of an elderly Christian woman in northern city of Kano last week, describing the perpetrators as “miscreants and criminals.”

BARELY 24 hours after its old website, www.nigerdeltaavengers.com was shutdown, the new militant group operating in the Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Avengers has launched a new website, www.nigerdeltaavengers.org.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday mourned boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday in Phoenix‚ Arizona, following a respiratory ailment. A White House statement quoted Obama as saying: “Muhammad Ali was the Greatest, Period.
“ If you just asked him, he will tell you, he will tell you he was the double greatest, that he had handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.

She said the television series was aimed at bringing to the fore, concerted efforts of the police at preventing and unveiling crime in the society. Olabisi also said that it was aimed at educating, sensitising and enlightening members of the public about their safety/security.

In a global first, the Swiss voted Sunday on a radical proposal to provide the entire population with enough money to live on, no strings attached.

Eni, the parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), said the oil firm’s production had been cut short by 65,000 barrels per day following Friday’s attack on its pipeline in Bayelsa.

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Sunday in Maiduguri alerted Borno residents that kerosene mixed with petrol is currently in circulation in the state.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is to supply agricultural inputs to over 20, 000 returnee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) families in Adamawa, Borno and Gombe states, an official has said.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “welcomed publication of the list of recovered funds by the Federal Government as a positive development towards entrenching a culture of transparency and accountability in government.”

Over 1000 families and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the northeast part of the country have benefited from the philanthropic gesture of a Non Governmental Organization, Peace Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Initiative (PRRI).

A Christian grocer was hacked to death near a church on Sunday in northwest Bangladesh, police said, amid growing deadly attacks by Islamist militants on religious minorities and secular activists.

New Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will deliver the Premier League title within two years, predicted defender Ricardo Carvalho on Sunday.

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President General, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto, has congratulated the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria and all over the world on the month of Ramadan, 1437 A. H expected to start tomorrow asking the Muslims to look out for the moon tonight.

NIGER Delta Avengers , NDA, website, www.nigerdeltavengers.com through which the militant group prolifically promoted its attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta, especially in the last one month has been brought down.