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(Nigeria) Ahead of Saturday’s general elections across the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Rivers South-East senatorial district, Senator Magnus Abe has taken his re-election campaign to more communities in the area.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that the transformation agenda of the current administration has failed to make any meaningful impact on the country, and rather than transform the country, President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda has deformed the country.

None of the 148 people on board the Germanwings passenger jet that crashed Tuesday over southern France are likely to have survived, French President Francois Hollande said.

(Nigeria) The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has appealed to Nigerians to guard against manipulations by opposition parties during forthcoming elections.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday, restrained President Goodluck Jonathan from deploying troops for elections henceforth, holding that that there was no part of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which empower the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-In Chief of the Armed Forces to deploy military for election purposes.

(Nigeria) Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, has warned General Muhammadu Buhari to consider former Vice president Atiku Abubakar and Kano State governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso as his real enemies.

Boko Haram appears to have been weakened by a sustained regional fight-back but there are growing fears the group could target vulnerable people displaced by the violence, as elections approach.

Nigeria is set to resettle, rehabilitate and reintegrate people displaced by Boko Haram attacks back into their homes and communities, to pave way for a new lease of life for them, a government spokesman said Monday.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has denied allegation that it spent over N1trillion to bribe traditional rulers.

(Nigeria) The Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has accused the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to release a video clip, designed to incite Nigerians to call for military coup instead of President Goodluck Jonathan to return as President come March 28.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Government, has filed a criminal charge against Emirates Airlines and five officials of the company before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over alleged theft of $1.6 million belonging to one Prince Chu Ikem Orji.

(Nigeria) Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, has called on members of the public to be cautious of the modus operandi of fraudsters in order not to fall victim of their antics.

Israel's representative was conspicuously missing when the United Nations Human Rights Council started a special session Monday on the situation in the Palestinian territories and the 2014 Gaza conflict.

Russian influence on self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, DPR and LPR, is limited, contrary to popular opinion in the West, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Norwegian daily Dagbladet in an interview published on Monday.

Islamist rebels captured at least four Syrian pilots after a crash landing of their helicopter, believed to have been used in dropping barrels packed with explosives on opposition-held areas, a monitoring group said Sunday.

President Reuven Rivlin criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday for having warned on election day that Israel's Arab citizens were being bused "in droves" to polling stations to strengthen Israel's left.

(Nigeria) President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to stop celebrating people with ill-gotten wealth in order to discourage corruption in the country.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian military has expressed concern of speculations and outright falsehood, being dished out to the public over its counterterrorism efforts, from foreign sources on the operations of Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, in combating insurgency in the North east part of the country.

Chad has placed itself at the forefront of efforts to help Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, making itself a target in the process. Its motives are far from selfless. Chad's economy is at stake.

Shiite rebels backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized Yemen's third largest city of Taiz and its airport on Sunday, security and military officials said, as thousands took to the streets in protest.

(Nigeria) The deputy to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Mr Tele Ikuru, has dumped his All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing the APC “As a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists, clothed in robes of pretence and deceit.”

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko should focus on implementing all points of the Minsk agreements before local elections in Donbass, head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, LPR, Igor Plotnitsky said on Sunday.

The United States Embassy in Riyadh and two other diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia resumed consular services on Sunday after closing all of last week due to security concerns.

Crimea’s residents prefer being part of Russia than of Ukraine, the United States magazine Forbes published results of a number of opinion polls carried out by Western research organisations.

(Nigeria) Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, has urged Nigerians to vote cautiously in the country’s forthcoming presidential elections in order to shape their future.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan in the South West of planning to make the March 28,  elections in the geo-political zone inconclusive, having realized that they cannot deliver the zone to the PDP as they have promised.

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called for a law to "explicitly bar for life anyone guilty of electoral-law violations--including hate speech and violence before, during and after the general elections from being elected to or appointed to public office.” 

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has again challenged on the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari to respond to the question put o him on whether he can guarantee that not one dollar of Al-Qeda, ISIS or ISIL (terrorist groups) money has been used to support his presidential campaign. Director of Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in a statement in Abuja on Saturday following the court threat by the spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu, on the question, said it was "a pity that supposed educated persons could not make a distinction between a question and an assertion. Rather than asking me to retract or withdraw the question, they should just answer it and stop misbehaving. “If they are waiting for a retraction to our questions, they will wait forever. Hell will freeze over before we retract any question that we have

(Nigeria) The Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has told wife of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Aisha Buhari to keep her advice to herself, as  wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, does not need it. Director, Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, in a statement in Abuja was reacting to Buhari's wife's advice to Mrs Jonathan that she (First Lady) would not be sent to jail if her husband, Gen Muhammadu Buhari wins. Fani-Kayode, said “We take note of what Hajia Aisha Buhari has said.  But we don’t appreciate her counsel and neither do we need any advice from her because the First Lady, Dame Jonathan, has not done anything wrong. “What we can tell her for now is that she should keep enjoying the limelight that she is presently enjoying which is alien to her.  "This is because within a few days, post March 28 presidential election, she will go back to where she came from a

(Nigeria) The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, was suffering from delusion caused by near success syndrome trauma. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday, advised the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to as a spokesperson of a political party, be civil and moral in the discharge of his duties. Metuh said,  "Our attention has be drawn to another shadow-chasing statement from the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.  "We have always insisted that spokespersons of political parties as distinct from support staff should maintain the highest level of decency, civility and morals in the discharge of our duties. "However, it remains rather shocking that 98 percent of Lai Mohammed's statements bother on the frivolous and poorly produced wild accusations. " We do not speak for the EFCC but we w

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation has accused the  Goodluck Jonathan government and his ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of plotting to unleash a fake leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau on the opposition party. APCPCO, meanwhile urged Nigerians not to be deceived by the dubious, wicked and desperate plans of the drowning PDP and its candidate to win the Presidential election. A statement  by Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign, said that any purported "capture" of Abubakar Shekau, will conflict with three previous claims by the Federal Government and its operatives that the insurgent leader had been killed. "We need to alert Nigerians that President Jonathan and the PDP have concluded plans to release the fake Shekau as a final campaign gimmick to gain cheap votes and inadvertently subvert the will of Nigerians in the 28th of March 2015 Presidential election,"

(Nigeria) Nigerian troops on Saturday foiled a fresh attack on Bama town in Borno State. Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information in a statement in Abuja, said "An attack by a band of terrorists on parts of Bama was this morning quelled by the Nigerian troops who dealt with them decisively. Over a score of them died while  others fled with wounds. "Many more of the attacking terrorists also died as the airforce patrol went after the fleeing ones. Pursuit  is still ongoing while calm has been restored and troops maintain firm control of Bama town. "A Hilux vehicle as well as other equipment  and some weapons were captured from the attackers. One soldier died while seven were wounded while repelling the attack. They have been evacuated from the combat area by air and are already receiving medical attention. "With most of the towns slated to be cleared of terrorists already covered, the campaign to rid rest of the communities of them is continuin

Suicide bombers on Friday targeted two mosques in the Yemeni capital held by the Shiite rebel Houthis, killing themselves and 137 others, a pro Houthi television reported. Al-Masirah TV station said four bombers blew themselves up in apparently synchronized attacks in the mosque of Badr in central Sana'a and the mosque of al-Hashoosh in the southern part of the capital, reports dpa . Prominent Houthi cleric Murtada al-Mahturi was among the dead. Some 345 were wounded in the attacks, which occurred during the congregational noon prayers, according to the broadcaster. The figures could not be independently verified.  Online footage showed bodies, including those of children, scattered at the sites.   The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the assaults in Sana'a and a fifth suicide attack also mounted Friday in the Houthis' far northern stronghold of Saada. The group said in an online statement, which could not be authenticated, that the five attack

Liberia pulled out all the stops Saturday to track down anyone who might have come into contact with the country's latest confirmed Ebola patient. The most recent case, confirmed by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF, late on Friday, destroyed hopes that the West African nation might soon be declared free of the virus, reports dpa. Liberia had not reported a new case for 20 days. As the incubation period of the deadly virus is 21 days, the World Health Organisation,WHO, requires a country to show that no new case has been reported for 42 days before officially declaring it Ebola free. The new case "is an unfortunate reminder that all Liberians need to maintain the same heightened level of vigilance and proper preventive behaviour," said information minister Lewis Brown. The Health Ministry deployed various surveillance and contact tracing teams on Saturday to prevent the further spread of the virus. The new patient is a 44-year-old woman who was tested in

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has accused the state All Progressives Congress, APC, of buying permanent voters cards from the people of the state. Chairman,  Media and Publicity,PDP Campaign Organisation in the state, Mr Emeka Okah in a statement said "The Campaign Organisation of the PDP, wishes to draw the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the security agencies to the criminal activities and electoral offences being perpetrated allegedly by  the APC in the State. "The leadership of the APC has engaged its members to procure the INEC issued Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) from potential voters in the state and the development portends grave danger to the nation’s democracy as well as jeopardises the efforts of the government and the commission in the quest for free and fair elections. "The PDP has received several reports from the 23 local government areas that the sum of N10,000 is being paid per PVC by

(Nigeria) First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, said in Bauchi State on Friday that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has done enough for women to deserve their mandate in forthcoming elections. Represented by the wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Amina Sambo, the First Lady said at a rally organised by women that most of the projects undertaken by the PDP-led administration, touched on the lives of women. She listed the projects to include roads, revitalization of the Railway transportation system, provision of  health facilities and drugs, among others, all of which had direct bearing on women and children in the country. ``Part of the commitments expressed by this administration under the PDP, is ensuring health of  women, just as I have now inaugurated a health facility, built for women and children in this state, ’’she said. She therefore, urged women to reward the present administration for the good work, by voting the PDP at all levels in the forthcoming general elections.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government on Friday in Abuja said it would not recognise the factional group of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Mr Joe Ajearo of the National Union of Electricity Employees , NUEE. The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Sen. Joel Ikenya, declared the stand of the Federal Government when Dr Ayuba Wabba, led other newlt-executive members of the congress paid him a courtesy visit. Ikenya said the splinter the election that brought in Wabba was duly monitored by all stakeholders in the sector. “We have not heard and we have not got any letter from anywhere in respect of any other NLC. It was in the media and our ministry participated in monitoring the process of the election. ``Therefore, controversy is internal. The ministry is not part of it. We know that you will sort yourselves out because there is a process and I know that all of you know that process, ‘’he said. The minister said that Nigerians would like to see a better united NLC that would wo

(Nigeria) Gunmen again disrupted the rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, although no life was lost in the attack. Gunmen on Friday over-ran the venue for the APC ward rally at Elioparanwo  in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, shooting on chieftains of the party as many people sustained gunshot wounds.

(Nigeria) Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has bemoaned the on-going strike by Medical doctors in the employment of the state government. Calling for a truce between striking doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild and the state government, Agbaje restated the call for Governor Babatunde Fashola to pay the medical practitioners three months withheld salaries. He reasoned that it was most uncharitable for government to look the other way while lives were being lost due to series of avoidable strikes by doctors in the last one year. According to him, no matter government’s position regarding the strike, it ought to consider the interest of Lagosians, on behalf of whom it holds public office in trust. Agbaje said: “I feel compelled once again to express my dissatisfaction with the latest strike by doctors in the employ of the state government, which has become like a recurring decimal in Lagos in the last one year. No

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of setting up its own radio station called Radio APC or Radio Chanji to use it o announce false results after the Presidential poll. Speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Friday, Director, Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, called for the arrest of the Presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd) and the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over the existence of what he described as an illegal radio station called "APC Radio or " Radio Chanji". Fani- Kayode also called for the arrest of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State; former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and former Nigeria Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador Yusuf Mamman, because the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has confirmed the existence of  the radio station. Fani- Kayode said,  "We have invited you he

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has told Nigerian voters to ignore the unlawful order by the Inspector-General of Police urging them to go home after casting their ballots during the forthcoming elections. APC in  a statement in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the electorate should rather listen to the  Independent National Electoral Election,  INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who said the electoral law does not state anywhere that voters cannot or should not wait to watch and ensure that their votes are counted. It therefore,  urged the electorate to make sure they stayed behind to protect their votes after casting their ballots, as was the case in 2011. APC said contrary to the suspicious directive by the IG, INEC encourages voters to stay behind and watch their votes counted, saying the law expects such voters to stay behind but to conduct themselves in an orderly manner. ''According to Jega, who appear

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation has asked Gen. Mohammad Buhari, All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate to clear his health and educational issues before the elections. The Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, who addressed newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said that the issues were critical to enable Nigerians make informed decision on the election coming up on March 28. He asked Buhari to explain to Nigerians his role in the 1966 coup and the killings of notable military personnel. He also urged the APC presidential candidate to explain to Nigerians, his role in the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, scandal while he was chairman of the fund. Fani-Kayode also said that it was necessary for Buhari to explain his role in the agitation for political Sharia in northern part of the country in 2000. Listing 32 other issues, he said, ‘’these are the questions that we would like Gen. Buhari to answer o

(Nigeria) All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, said he will not discriminate against women in all sectors will be dealt with,  if he is elected in the March 28 election.

Moscow will keep pressing for the investigation of all facts behind and all leads that might help clear up the cause of the Malaysian Boeing's crash in Ukraine last summer, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Thursday.

The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak has reached 10,216.

  (Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC of being unhappy with the successes recorded by military and President Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government over Boko Haram insurgents.

(Nigeria) The capture of Bama, Borno State has led to the discovery of horrendous atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists while their hold on the town lasted, and as they fled. 

(Nigeria) The Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has cautioned the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, that any foreign currency imported by the party (APC) and its leaders would be seized.

(Nigeria) A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja,  has struck out a suit seeking to stop Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, from contesting for any electoral office in Nigeria.

(Nigeria) An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the remand of one Alli Mustapha, 42, in custody at the Ikoyi Prisons, for allegedly killing another over a disagreement on a stick of cigarette.