Saudi Arabia cannot respond to criticism of its regime by cutting off heads, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday following Riyadh’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.

The management of Kano Pillars Football Club has fired 10 of its players ahead of the 2015/2016 Glo Premier League season. Idris Malikawa, Media Officer of the club made this known in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Kano.

Investigations into the identity of an English-speaking man who featured in an Islamic State (IS) group video are focusing on a Briton, Siddhartha Dhar, the BBC reported Tuesday.

MAKURDI- Over 100 non-indigenous school teachers, retrenched by the Benue state government in 2005/6 have sent a Save Our Souls message to Governor Samuel Ortom demanding the payment of their emoluments and entitlements. The aggrieved teachers who spoke to Vanguard yesterday through Mesdames Chioma Okafor, Mba Felicia, Nwankwo Irene and Juliana Eze lamented the refusal of the state government to obey a subsisting High Court order issued in 2008 directing the payment of their emoluments after being disengaged from the state’s service.

Ahead of Saturday’s Bayelsa state governorship run-off election in Southern Ijaw, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again rallied its formation in the state and particularly Southern Ijaw Local Government, to use all democratic means necessary to resist any move by the APC to rig the election.