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*Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State (Nigeria) Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has said that the purported members of the Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC,  are outsiders to the party.

*Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki (Nigeria) President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has reiterated the importance of education in ensuring peace, security and rule of law in any society.

*Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki (Nigeria) President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has called on the Government of Qatar to end its visa restriction on Nigerians.

R-L: Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, Deputy Governor Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, PDP Chieftain, Prince Emma Anyanwu and Former Minister of Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo during the flag off the construction of the Kira-Nonwa-Barayira-Sime-Eteo Road in Tai Local Government Area by the Senate Minority Leader on Saturday.  (Nigeria) In continuation of its state-wide projects delivery , Rivers State Government, weekend flagged off the construction of the Kira-Nonwa-Barayira-Sime-Eteo Road in Tai Local Government Area of the state.

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.

*Family members of the killed soldiers were in the courtroom to hear the verdict (Photo AFP) A Jordanian military court sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment with hard labour on Monday for killing three U.S. military trainers at the gate of a major air base in 2016, a judicial source said.

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.

Troubled Etisalat has terminated its management agreement with its Nigerian arm and given the business time to phase out the brand in Nigeria, the chief executive of Etisalat International said on Monday.

Security forces chased three explosive-laden vehicles through Damascus Sunday, intercepting two of them at checkpoints but failing to stop the third before it exploded in the city center, killing at least eight people, state media and others reported.

A demand by Gulf states and Egypt that Qatar should shut down the Al Jazeera television network as one of the conditions for ending a partial blockade is “an unacceptable act of blackmail,” Reporters Without Borders, RSF, said on Wednesday.

*Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed a claim by the White House that the Syria government, a longtime Russian ally, was planning a chemical attack similar to one in April that killed dozens of civilians.

*President Bashar Assad of Syria The involvement of external powers in the Syrian war continued to accelerate Tuesday as President Bashar Assad’s government and Russia dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack.

*Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (2nd L) attends prayers on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, inside a mosque in Hama, in this handout picture provided by SANA on Sunday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad delivered prayers for Islam’s Eid al-Fitr holiday in Hama on Sunday, the furthest he has travelled inside Syria in years, showing his growing confidence.

Pakistani rescue worker and hospital staff transport a victim of an oil tanker explosion at a hospital in Multan, Pakistan, Sunday (Photo  Associated Press) Alerted by an announcement over a mosque’s loudspeaker that an overturned tanker truck had sprung a leak, scores of villagers raced to the scene with fuel containers Sunday to gather the oil. Then the wreck exploded, engulfing people in flames as they screamed in terror.

(Nigeria) President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has congratulated Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, on his appointment by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, as the Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that Mohammad bin Salman’s appointment as the heir apparent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was a testament to the achievements of the young prince since his appointment as the youngest Defense Minister in the World, and Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Council for Economic and Development Affairs. “I congratulate Prince Mohammad bin Salman on his appointment as the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the Senate President said, “I wish him absolute success in this new role. It is my hope that his appointment will lead to greater relations between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia....

*Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison   They call it the “grill”: The victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun furiously within a circle of fire. It is just one of the terrors inflicted by interrogators on detainees in Yemen who are routinely beaten with wires and were kept in filthy shipping containers, blindfolded for months — all by one of America’s closest counterterrorism allies.

*A downed Syrian aircraft  Russia on Monday threatened aircraft from the United States-led coalition in Syrian-controlled airspace and suspended a hotline intended to avoid collisions in retaliation for the U.S. military shooting down a Syrian warplane.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis President Donald Trump’s decision to allow his Pentagon chief to set United States  troop levels in Afghanistan won’t mean an immediate infusion of troops but should improve management of the war effort, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday. Still missing: an overall Trump strategy for America’s longest conflict.

The use of white phosphorous projectiles poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul, the organisation said. The Human Rights Watch organisation has condemned the use of white phosphorous projectiles in Iraq and Syria by the United States-led coalition.

*A Russian submarine firing cruise missiles A Russian warship and submarine have fired four cruise missiles from the Mediterranean at Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.