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  (Nigeria) Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential flag-bearer, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to remain hopeful and optimistic in the New Year.

(Nigeria) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Kano State said on Wednesday that it had impounded 7,521.7kg of hard drugs between January and December, 2014.

(Nigeria) The Court of Appeal in Lagos, on Wednesday, struck out a N47.1 billion theft charge against former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola.

(Nigeria)  The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri on Wednesday, announced a two-day restriction of vehicular movements in Maiduguri and environs during the New Year and Eid-El-Maulud celebrations. Col. Sani Usman, the spokesman of the division, said this in a statement in Maiduguri.

Two German men have been killed in Nigeria, the foreign ministry in Berlin said Wednesday, as media reported they were engineers shot dead while on a motorcycle trip.

(Nigeria) Lagos State governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has asked Nigerians to regard 2015 as the year of peaceful and credible elections.

(Nigeria) The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code named Operation Pulo Shield, has arrested six suspected sea pirates and recovered cache of arms in the creek of Bayelsa State.

The Cross River State governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has urged politicians to eschew all forms of bitterness and divisive tendencies and close ranks in order to build a more formidable state that can compete favourably among its peers, in furtherance of his vision of building a harmonious and politically stable state.

(Nigeria) The Rivers council of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on politicians in the country to not to see the 2015 elections as a do or die affair. The state TUC Chairman, Mr Chika Onuegbu, made the call in his New Year message in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Wednesday, said that the New Year 2015 will an important one for Nigerians to vote for change and get the country back to the path of greatness, rather than the present system at the federal level where nothing works.

A meeting of members of the working group comprising representatives of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, LPR, Kiev security officials and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, began in Luhansk on Wednesday, the LPR official news agency Luhansk Information Centre said.

Lithuania has detained several persons on charges of spying for an unnamed country, the Lithuanian Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. One of the detainees is an Air Force officer.

(Nigeria) Some Nigerians and experts in the nation’s power sector on Wednesday condemned the increase in electricity tariff announced recently by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led Federal Government to use the security agencies, especially the Department of State Service, DSS and the Police, to harass and intimidate the opposition with a view to decapitating it ahead of the 2015 elections.

The United States  on Wednesday denounced an attempted coup in Gambia, urging all parties in the West African country to refrain from more violence.

(Nigeria) Mr Akinwumi Ambode, the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Lagos state, on Tuesday said he will raise the performance bar of Governor Babatunde Fashola, if elected into office.

(Nigeria) The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the names of the 11 presidential candidates and their running mates who will contest the 2015 general elections.

A group of disaffected soldiers launched a foiled coup bid in The Gambia on Tuesday while the west African state's iron-fisted leader was in Dubai, military and diplomatic sources said.

(Nigeria) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Tuesday said it had arrested 14 suspected drug traffickers with 33.65kg of narcotic drugs valued at N300 million.

German opposition lawmakers called Tuesday for an investigation into reports that the country's army and foreign intelligence agency contributed to a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO list of Taliban targets in Afghanistan, some of whom were killed.

No fewer than 14 fighters were killed on Tuesday in clashes between Burundian security forces and members of an unidentified armed group who came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said.

Heavy gunfire rang out Tuesday near the presidential palace in the tiny West African nation of Gambia, residents said, raising the specter of a coup attempt while the longtime ruler is out of the country.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Chief Nyesom Wike on Tuesday formally presented  Mrs Ipalibo Banigo as the deputy governorship candidate of the party for the 2015 elections.

(Nigeria) Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians not to despair or lose hope because of the current challenges facing the country.  

A group of Arab states led by Jordan submitted to the United Nations Security Council on Monday a new draft resolution on the creation of the Palestinian State that may be put to the vote before the New Year’s Eve.

The United States military has conducted an airstrike targeting a militant group leader in Somalia, the Pentagon said.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers State, has said that  the political dream of the Ogoni people can only be realised under its administration, with of Mr. Nyesom Wike as governor.

Indonesian rescuers recovered over 40 bodies from the Java Sea, where a Malaysian passenger aircraft was discovered on Tuesday after it went missing over the weekend, a spokesman for the Indonesian Navy said.

 (Nigeria) Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr Nyesom Wike has accused outgoing Rivers State governor, Mr Romiti Amaechi of totally neglecting the link road leading to the riverine area of the state.

Dozens of planes and ships searching Indonesian waters for a missing AirAsia plane focused Monday on a patch of oil for possible clues, as a senior official warned the aircraft was likely at the bottom of the sea.

Cameroon's army has killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law the bill cancelling Ukraine's non-bloc status. Poroshenko said Ukraine will hold a referendum on accession to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, in the next 5-6 years, reports Tass.

An Ivorian court on Monday in Abidjan, gave an order stopping former President Laurent Gbagbo, from contesting the presidency of his party, the Ivorian Popular Front, FPI.

A meeting of representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Ukrainian armed forces has begun in Donetsk, the Donetsk News Agency reports.

The self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic is nationalizing enterprises which are main employers in cities in order to support required infrastructure, republican Luhansk leader Igor Plotnitsky told a news conference on Monday.

At least 14 people have died and eight more injured due to flooding in southern Thailand, officials confirmed Monday.

 Three militants were killed in a special operation in Russia’s North Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia on Sunday, the local police, said, reports Tass.

Indonesia on Sunday called-off the search for an AirAsia plane that disappeared in bad weather after taking off from Java for Singapore with 162 people on board.

(Nigeria) The Ebonyi State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of a 45- year-old-man, Nwofu Igbo, who allegedly killed his son in Nwofe Community in Izzi Local Government Area of the state.

  West Africa's fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands more lives than the dreaded virus.

Gaza's Hamas rulers prevented a group of children from entering Israel on Sunday for a postwar conciliatory trip meant to foster peace, Hamas and organizers said.

Libyan Health Minister, Ridha al-Oukli, on Sunday, said that four persons died of complications arising from Avian Influenza in Libya.

(Nigeria) The governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos, Mr Jimi Agbaje on Sunday announced Alhaja Safurat Abdulkareem as his running mate for the 2015 election in the state.

Pakistani forces killed 55 Islamist militants in clashes and airstrikes, officials said Saturday, as the government expanded a military offensive after a school massacre.

(Nigeria) The National President, Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Malam Mohammed Garba, has cautioned politicians against acts capable of truncating the nation’s democracy. Garba gave the advice in Kano State on Sunday while chatting with newsmen.

AirAsia Indonesia has released information about the 162 passengers and crew on board Flight QZ8501, which has lost contact with the air traffic control on Sunday, reports Xinhua.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured Nigerians and the international community that it will do all in its power to make sure that the 2015 general elections were violence-free,  noting that the rising apprehension about the polls among the populace was inimical to the conduct of a successful election.

  The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia says one if its staffers has contracted Ebola, bringing to four the number of its members who have come down with the disease during the worst outbreak on record.

Meeting of the Contact Group for settling the armed conflict in Ukraine has ended in Minsk, according to Tass.

The number of people killed by the Ebola virus has exceeded 7,500, the World Health Organisation, WHO, said in a statement Wednesday.