US President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he intends to dissolve his controversial philanthropic foundation to avoid conflicts of interest, but the move was quickly complicated by an ongoing legal probe.

Christian leaders from the Vatican to Bethlehem struck a sombre note on Christmas Eve speaking of war, fear and division, as cities in Europe ramped up security in the shadow of the Berlin market attack.

More than 60 members of the internationally-renowned Red Army Choir were on board a Russian military plane that crashed in the Black Sea on Sunday, Russia’s defence ministry said. A list of passengers and crew published by the ministry showed that 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the army’s official musical group, and its conductor […]

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Sunday says it has deployed 1,000 personnel in Maiduguri to secure lives and property during Christmas celebrations.

Kayode Komolafe, Deputy Managing Director at ThisDay Newspapers, was about the first to convey some warning thoughts he compiled after listening to Governor Kashim Shettima’s remarks of Monday, June 24, 2013. Shettima spoke in Maiduguri, when he received Presidential ‘Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North’ inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan on April 24, 2013, under the chairmanship of then Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki.

Politics is played well once rules of engagement are well laid out by gladiators. Smart politicians know when to celebrate, agitate for something and when to concede defeat. Calvin Coolidge was the 30th US president.

Following the ousting of the Islamist Boko Haram terrorist group from Sambisa, the Chief Of Army Staff, Lt General Buratai has visited the 112 Task Force Battalion, Mafa, Borno state where he interacted with troops and shared breakfast with them.

Former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has suddenly become the main issue in Nigeria’s politics. No issue seems complete until his name and stance, real or imagined, have been dropped into the mix. He has become the Obafemi Awolowo of our time, apologies to former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, who once described the late sage as the main issue in Nigerian politics.

Nigerians in diaspora, under the group, The Nigerians In Diaspora Monitoring Group(NDMG), have expressed happiness with President Muhammadu Buhari over the defeat of the Islamist Boko Haram terrorist group.