By Anthony Ogbonna The federal government of Nigeria, Thursday, said that the rampaging Fulani herdsmen reported to have killed lives and raped women as well as destroyed farmers’ farmlands in some states in the country are not terrorists but simply criminals.

Chief Fidelis Umeh, the President-General of Igbo Cultural Association in Adamawa, has commended Gov. Muhammadu Bindow’s efforts at maintaining peace and stability in the state.

A young television journalist has been killed in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura while covering a protest, police said on Thursday.

The police in FCT, Abuja, on Thursday arraigned a lawyer, Clifford Eze, who allegedly forged a landed property document to defraud another man of N1 million.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has decided to accept the charges of obstruction of justice and criminal associations against  Brazilian President Michel Temer, the report said on Thursday.

The Federal Government, on Thursday, described the rate of illiteracy in the country as alarming.

Normal healthcare services have been paralised at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi in Nasarawa State following the indefinite strike embarked on by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU).

The National Assembly on Thursday endorsed verification civil service pensioners being conducted by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in Lagos.

“Father of all bombs’’, the new Iran’s powerful and deadly arsenal, is causing panic in the Gulf states and Israel.

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Abuja, has dismissed an application brought by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, seeking to be joined as a defendant in the trial of Jide Omokore.