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(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has appealed to voters not to be deceived by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who will share cubes of sugar, tubers of yam and grains for their votes, saying Nigeria’s politics has gone beyond that level.

Syria's state news agency says a rocket has struck a prison in a suburb of the capital Damascus, killing at least four people.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that the Nigerian Army must remain loyal to the nation rather than be reduced to defending the tenure of an individual, adding that Presidents and governors will come and go but the Nigerian nation will remain.

Prominent Egyptian democracy activist, Alaa Abdel-Fattah was jailed for five years Monday after being found guilty of organising an illegal demonstration and of attacking police officers by a court in Cairo.

Authorities called off a rescue operation Monday after retrieving at least 69 bodies from a ferry that capsized in a Bangladeshi river with about 150 passengers aboard, officials said.

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has petitioned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, and the Chairperson, Diaspora Committee, Nigeria House of Representatives, Ms Abike Dabiri over the situation of Nigerians living in Baku, Azerbaijan.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, has called on the Inspector General of Police, to investigate the recent attack on some widows in Owerri, describing the attack as barbaric.