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The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of dropping the country's non-aligned status, taking a major step toward North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO membership.

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked a group of five United Nations human rights independent experts to individually and jointly use their “good offices and positions to urgently request the Nigerian government and its military authorities not to carry out the mass death sentences imposed on 54 Nigerian soldiers for what the government claimed was disobeying a direct order from their commanding officer.”

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as a Janus-faced bumbling party for engaging in a serial mudslinging against the party (APC) and its leaders, especially in the aftermath of its hugely successful national convention in which Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was elected as the APC's presidential candidate.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has enjoined the people the state to remain vigilant and security conscious as Nigerians celebrate Christmas.

 The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak has reached 7,518. As many as 19,340 people are infected, the World Health Organisation, WHO, said on Monday, reports Tass. The countries affected by Ebola include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, the United States and Spain.

(Nigeria) A packed Kano State High Court heard testimony on Monday that a 14-year-old girl admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write, reports AFP.

(Nigeria) Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has convicted and sentenced the trio of James Ettete; Ekene Jude and Abidemi Adesanya to two and half years imprisonment each,  for stealing the sum of N480,000 belonging to Skye Bank Plc.