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(Nigeria) The Nigerian Government has expresses regret at the desperate human right situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, which it noted was reminiscent of what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and in Bosnia Herzegovina in 1995.

*Kogi State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources visit flooded area (Nigeria) Kogi State Government has ordered the immediate evacuation of the traders, shanties and temporary structures around the Nataco Junction axis of the Okene/Lokoja/Abuja Expressway in Lokoja following the flash floods that occurred on Thursday.

An ultimatum telling Nigeria’s Igbo minority in the North of the country to flee their homes is of “grave concern,” a group of United Nations human rights experts, has warned.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike presenting a souvenir to the Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Lehmann during the High Commissioner's visit to Government House Port Harcourt on Tuesday. (Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom  Wike has alerted the international  community  of the latest rigging system hatched  by the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC, wherein they use the Police to concoct electoral results in collusion with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

(Right) President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki presenting a souvenir to the leader of US Congress delegation, Senator Christopher Coons, with them is the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives,  Ado Doguwa, during a meeting between the US Congress with the leadership of the National Assembly in Abuja on Monday (Nigeria) President of the Senate, Dr  Bukola Saraki led a team of National Assembly members on Monday in a meeting with a United States, US Congressional delegation to discuss issues around security, humanitarian crisis in the North East, and ways to build a better working relationship between the Parliaments of both countries.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (second right), with the Chief Executive Officer of Huaxia Movie Distribution Group of China, Mr. Wei Bian (second left); the Director, Production and Distribution of Star Times, Tony Kao (first left) and Chief Executive Officer, Star Times, Justin Zhang (first right) when the Huaxia Movie Distribution Group visited the Minister in his office in Abuja on Friday. (Nigeria) Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that  Nigeria is ready to receive investors in the Creative Industry, having created the enabling environment for investments through favourable economic policies.

The body of a victim is carried from the site of an airstrike on a hotel in Arhab, Yemen Wednesday. (Photo Al-Masira TV via AP) The Saudi-led coalition carried out several airstrikes in Yemen early on Wednesday, hitting a small hotel near the capital of Sanaa and killing dozens of Shiite Houthi rebels and civilians, Yemeni officials and witnesses said.

*International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague  (Nigeria) The International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague is considering the petition on the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in 1999 and under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria, anti-corruption advocacy group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has confirmed.

*Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, APC National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress  (Nigeria) The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Monday inaugurated a seven-member reconciliation committee for the party’s Kogi State Chapter at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja.

*Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State (Nigeria) The chairman of the State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Felix Obuah has  again given Governor Nyesom Wike a pat on the back for his interest and huge investment in science education in the State, describing the gesture as a step in the right direction.

*President Donald Trump of the US With corporate chieftains fleeing, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was ending a pair of advisory business councils in the latest fallout over his remarks about the Charlottesville protests.

*Chief Great Ogboru (Nigeria) A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State and governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the 2015 governorship election in the state, Chief Great Ogboru, has warned against imposition of candidates in the party ahead of the 2019 general election.

(Nigeria) The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, has announced L5 Lab, a leading indigenous venture development company, as the preferred vendor for the production and provision of technical support services for its proposed PEBEC technology solution which will empower citizens to monitor, evaluate and provide feedback on services received from government agencies.

Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of the British Safety Council, has announced the appointment of Lawrence Waterman, a passionate health and safety campaigner, as the new Chairman of the British Safety Council.

(Nigeria) The Local Organising Committee, LOC of the 2017 International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open is offering two media internships for interested undergraduates (male and female) in Nigeria tertiary institutions to undergo training at the five-day tournament to be held at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, from  August 9 to 13, 2017.

*Senator Andy Uba (Nigeria) As the race for Anambra State November governorship election intensifies, sources close to the party's National Working Committee, NWC,  of the All Progressives Party, APC, have confirmed that the party has narrowed its preferred candidates for its primary election to Senator Andy Uba, Chief George Muoghalu and Tony Nwoye.

(Nigeria) A humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders, MSF,  on Sunday said it had deployed more than 1, 700 personnel to Borno to provide emergency support services to communities ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency.

(Nigeria) Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra, MASSOB, has described Arewa Youths as hypocrites for allegedly writing to the United Nations, asking the world body to declare the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, a terrorist group, insisting that the IPOB has never involved violence in its struggle. MASSOB rather urged the world body to initiate a peaceful referendum to settle the Biafa issue. MASSOB in a statement by its leader, Mazi Uchenna Madu said it “Welcomed the supportive voice of Arewa people through their well tutored and backed youths on writing to the United Nation for quick conduction of a referendum that will determine the peaceful exit of Biafra from Nigeria. “But In as much as MASSOB commend the Arewa people for this upright support, we condemned their hypocritical and bias mind on which ethnic nationalities that made up Biafra. “Arewa people has no moral or natural right in demarcating the land of Biafra, they have no such right in tell

Amnesty International on Tuesday said tactics used by Iraqi forces and their United States-led coalition allies in the battle for Mosul violated international humanitarian law and might amount to war crimes.

Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu walk with a giant Turkish flag on the 19th day of a protest, dubbed “justice march”, against the detention of the party’s lawmaker Enis Berberoglu, near Izmit, Turkey. Turkey on Monday issued arrest warrants for 72 university staff, including a former adviser to the main opposition leader who staged a mass rally on Sunday.