EX-MILITANTS under Third Phase Amnesty group yesterday, urged the Presidential Amnesty Office to discard payment claim by expelled member, one Gabriel Ebuo, over purported eight months unpaid stipend.

Indian police in Bengaluru are probing the death of a Nigerian, identified as N. Chigozie allegedly killed over Biafra.

Having watched with keen interest and reflected upon the journey so far of the APC led Federal Government and the sufferings of millions of Nigerians,  I am constrained in conscience to pen down this piece at a time when our politics is too focused on who is up and who is down. I am of the view that the founding fathers of our country learned to disagree without being disagreeable – they demonstrated that it’s possible to compromise so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised; and that so long as you are willing to listen to each other you can get the best in people instead of the worst.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Public Relations adviser,Bell Pottinger, has been blacklisted by Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) in South Africa.

More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo during heavy rains, the jail’s Director, Mutanade Nyongoli, said on Tuesday.

The Imo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Chris Ezike, has said that the command is  determined to apprehend the murderers of Rev. Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo.

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has said that ‘anybody in IPOB member that gives money to the zoo police for their bail will be expelled from IPOB’.

Dr Abdul’Aziz Manga, the Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Hospitals Management Board, said that the state was experiencing shortage of doctors and other medical staff.

With the destructive Hurricane Harvey still raging, some U.S. States and territory are again bracing for another unpleasant experience with Hurricane Irma, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday.

Two Red Cross staff members kidnapped on Feb. 8 in Afghanistan have been released, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday.