Two girls approximately seven or eight years old blew themselves up in a northeastern market on Sunday, killing themselves and wounding at least 17 others, witnesses said.

A bomb blast killed at least 25 worshippers during Sunday mass inside a Cairo church near the seat of the Coptic pope who heads Egypt’s Christian minority, state media said.

The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA has said only six persons died in Saturday’s church collapse in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.

As the casualty figures from the bloody re-run Rivers State national and Legislative elections begin to emerge Sunday, security authorities have confirmed that a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP Alkali Mohammed) and his orderly were killed and beheaded during an ambush at Omoku.

The past week is unarguably one of the busiest and critical times in the life of the 8th Senate. It was a week the law making body significantly upped its game in its drive to achieve stated objectives contained in its Legislative Agenda, that is, to enact laws that would spur business growth, increase access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), attract investors and private sector funding for infrastructure and to reflate the nation’s ailing economy.

Barely 48 hours after a twin bomb blasts hit Madagali market, in Madagali Local government area of Adamawa State, leaving 56 dad and 177 injured, another twin blast Sunday hit Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Not long ago, the peaceful, self-subsistence farming community of Ndi Okereke Abam, Arochukwu LGA, Abia State, was attacked by the now notorious, AK-47 rifle wielding, bow and arrow bearing marauders masquerading as Hausa/Fulani herdsmen. By the time they were through with the unarmed, government abandoned community, seven persons, all from Ndi Okereke Abam, were down, fatally injured. They are still recuperating in hospitals in the area.

Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has disclosed that he ‘absolutely’ suffered racism in office, adding Americans’ ‘primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign’.

Benin-City – The major reason for communal crisis, particularly in the seven local  government areas of Edo South, is land. Youths, under the aegis of Community Development Associations (CDAs), allegedly took over the sale of land in most of the Bini communities and, in the process, scammed those who wanted to buy.

Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, (AFCSC) Jaji, Air Vice Marshal Suleiman Abubakar Dambo, has charged young military officers undergoing tactics grilling in military training institutions in the country to brace themselves for tougher tasks brought about by new and choking internal security challenges.