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(Nigeria) The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has nullified the purported suspension of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.

(Nigeria) A 42-year-old man, Solomon Odo, who allegedly raped his co-tenant’s child, was on Thursday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos.

(Nigeria) An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Ojota in Lagos State, has granted 31-year-old Mayowa Adeyemi arraigned for defiling a 10-year-old minor bail after he pleaded not guilty to the crime.

A radio broadcaster was shot dead on Thursday by an unidentified gunman in the southern Philippines, police said. The victim is the third media professional to be killed in the past two weeks.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has described Mr Godsday Orubebe, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, as an elevated thug and a political jobber, who is out to make noise as means of getting his next meal ticket.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as deceitful, obstructionist and provocative the petition written to President Muhammadu Buhari by the 16 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, federal lawmakers from Rivers over the State's Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, saying those who were blatantly obstructing the course of justice were the same ones now trying to play the victim.

Ten suspected Boko Haram members went on trial in Chad on Wednesday over their alleged roles in twin attacks that killed 38 people in the capital N'Djamena in June.