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Gun battle between two rival ex-militia groups in Lobia community, southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State left eight people, including a sibling of an ex-militant leader, Pastor Reuben Wilson, dead. The victims, suspected to be armed militants regrouping in the state were identified by operatives of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) Operation [...]

No fewer than 12 people were killed over the weekend in an attack on a market and a church in Adamawa State. The unidentified gunmen according to sources fled the border to the Cameroun. The attack took place on Sunday in the farming village of Njilang, Adamawa State, near the border, an area that has [...]

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle won a standing ovation at the World Jewish Congress on Monday for an address in which he asserted that Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against its enemies and that anti-Semitism needed to be attacked at its roots. Westerwelle said fighting anti-Semitism entailed not only preventing physical attacks [...]

A high-ranking Syrian military official said “dozens of elite troops” were killed in Sunday’s Israeli airstrikes on targets near Damascus, some of which were close to the presidential palace. Local residents and rebel activists said that the airstrikes, the second in 48 hours to target Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile shipments en route to Hezbollah, hit bases of [...]

Mr Nnamdi Efenwe, the Coordinator of Nisi Agro-Allied Services, on Monday said there was the need for cooperation between local farmers and the agricultural institutions across the country. Efenwe spoke during an interview in Lagos on Monday, saying, “There was also need for the farmers to benefit from what the related institutions were doing”. He [...]

  The World Bank’s new Country Partnership Strategy would focus on three pillars – sustainability and inclusive growth, human development and governance, to achieve results. The Country Director, Ms Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the bank’s Spring Meeting in Washington and the Nigerian portfolio on Monday in Abuja. She said that [...]

Hundreds of students, who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday in Kano staged a peaceful demonstration against  mass failure and withholding of their results. The students stormed the premises of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria in Kano on motorcycles around noon and carried placards and green leaves to show their anger. Spokesman for the [...]

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ebonyi Chapter, on Monday said its members have withdrawn their services in all government and private hospitals in the state. Dr Chidi Esike, the state NMA Chairman, said at a press conference in Abakaliki that the withdrawal was due to the kidnap of a consultant paediatrician, Dr Pius Maiyike. Dr. [...]

Nigeria’s boxing legend Bash Ali has once again appealed for President Goodluck Jonathan’s intervention to help him to actualise his quest to enter his name in the “Guinness Book of World Records’’. The record, if achieved, would make Ali become one of the oldest fighters in the cruiser weight category in the world. Bash also [...]

On the 40th anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the fugitive convicted of the killing, Joanne Chesimard, has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI—the first woman ever to make the list. Officials from the FBI and the New Jersey State Police made the announcement this morning during [...]