A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people when he detonated an explosive belt at a funeral northeast of the Iraqi capital on Monday, security officials said. The attack in Muqdadiyah, which was hit by revenge attacks on homes and mosques after a January suicide bombing, also wounded at least 40 people, they said.

The Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Anambra, Chief Chris Eluemuno, has said that the organisation is bound to support President Mohammadu Buhari in the interest of the Igbo. Eluemuno told newsmen on Sunday after being conferred with the traditional title of “Ogbuefi Nwajiugo” by his Nkwelle- Ezunaka community in Anambra that the apex socio-cultural organisation had no choice but to partner with the government.

Bauchi-The alleged Boko Haram surveillance of the Christmas day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger State has been arrested at Alkaleri town of Bauchi by the Nigeria Army.

An Igbosere High Court in Lagos will on April 26 hear a fresh application by Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of late Ikemba of Nnewi, Odumegwu Ojukwu, over alleged move by the family to eject her sons from the company’s properties located in Lagos.

Following the recent defection of some leaders and members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Delta state, the National President of Anioma Youth Council for Change, AYCC, Comrade Joshua Ogun Okoh, yesterday wondered if the party was dead in the state.