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(Nigeria) Ms Zainab Bangura, United Nations pecial Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, on Wednesday decried reported rape and forced marriages of female captives of Boko Haram.

Pressure mounted on football's ruling body FIFA Wednesday as police detained seven football officials in Zurich on US bribery charges, while prosecutors seized FIFA documents in a separate probe over the 2018 and 2022 World Cup decisions.

(Nigeria) A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Wednesday adjourned a N150 billion libel suit filed by former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, against the African Independent Communication (AIT) till June 30.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was Wednesday named the most powerful woman in the world, for the ninth consecutive year, by Forbes Magazine which cited her actions related to the German economy, eurozone stability and Russian sanctions.

(Nigeria) Rivers State governor elect, Mr Nyesom Wike, has denied ever killing anybody or conspiring with any other person whatsoever to kill any person in his life in all his political pursuits, noting that killing of anybody has never and will never form part of his strategy to win any election.

(Nigeria)  The people of Egbebiri Community at Biseni, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayalsa State, have shut down six oil wells operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, alleging neglect of its Cooperate Social Responsibilities.

A civil rights group, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, has ‎asked the Federal Court in Abuja to stop the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, from administering oath on the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.

(Nigeria) Hajiya Aisha Buhari, the wife of Nigeria's president-elect, has assured the people of Nigeria of the incoming government's commitment to the development of children in every geopolitical zone of the country.

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Abducted: A United Nations investigation discovered Islamic State is committing horrendous sex crimes on young women – particularly from Iraq's minority Yazidi community (pictured in April being freed by ISIS after almost a year of captivity) A woman was burned alive by depraved Islamic State militants after she refused to take part in an 'extreme sex act', a United Nations official has revealed.

(Nigeria) Hearing in the N150 billion libel suit against DAAR Communications by the All Progressives Congress, APC National Leader, Chief Bola Tinubu, has been fixed for May 27.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the more than 50 operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to immediately vacate the Lagos residence of the senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District, Mr Buruji Kashamu.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has sworn in Mr. Alhassan Mohammed as Chairman, Etsako West Local Government Area and suspended him for two months.

Kiev-controlled forces have seized the building of a high school in a village they have occupied on territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, a DPR Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has said that “the government of President Goodluck Jonathan should blame its failure to acknowledge let alone implement decisions of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and Special Rapporteur on adequate housing sent to the government in November 2013 for the poor electricity supply in the country.”

(Nigeria) The Joint Action Committee, JAC of Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress in Cross River has declared an indefinite strike by civil servants in the state over unpaid salaries.

An "alarming spike" in suicide bombings by girls and women used by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria has children in danger of being seen as potential threats, the United Nations children's agency said Tuesday.

Al-Shabab gunmen attacked Kenyan police vehicles near Somalia's border, injuring at least five officers and burning five cars, police said on Tuesday.

Iraqi forces have launched a counter-offensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old petty trader, Okechukwu Anekwe, to five years imprisonment for dealing in hemp.

A contract on the delivery of Russia’s S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran is still being finalized, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Tuesday.

Russia's Defence Ministry said Tuesday that more than 100 military planes were participating in a surprise test of combat readiness, dwarfing a similar exercise by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO in the Arctic this week.

Some 16 million Yemenis - or two-thirds of the population - have no access to clean water, British charity Oxfam warned Tuesday, raising fears of diseases spreading in the conflict-hit country.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied report that its National Working Committee, NWC, met on Monday night and decided to zone the Senate Presidency to the North-Central and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the South-West, saying nothing like that ever happened.

The trial in Iran of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who has been jailed for the past 10 months on charges including espionage, began in a Tehran courtroom on Tuesday, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

(Nigeria) Rivers  State  governor-Elect,  Mr  Nyesom  Wike,  has said that his administration  will  carry  out a forensic  audit of all government  accounts to ensure  the  recovery  of  all resources  stolen  by top officials  of  the  out-going  administration  in the  state.

‎ (Nigeria) Authorities of the University of Ibadan, UI, on Monday asked its students to vacate the premises immediately, pending the time the problem of shortage of water and electricity would be addressed.

The Russian Railways Company has denied as provocative Ukrainian media accusations that military cargoes were delivered to Ukraine’s Donbas region by railway, the company said in a statement circulated on Monday.

Democracy in Russia is developing in line with international norms and no advice from outside is needed, Russian Foreign Ministry’s representative for human rights, democracy and the supremacy on law Konstantin Dolgov wrote on his Twitter account on Monday, commenting on United States Department spokeswoman Marie Harf’s pronouncements about Russia’s new law on undesirable organisation.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday closed the prosecution of its case against an oil marketer, Rowaye Jubril, accused of N963.7 million fuel subsidy fraud.

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, group have set large parts of Iraq's largest oil refinery on fire, in an effort to thwart advances by Iraqi security forces.

Canadian smartphone maker, BlackBerry Limited is cutting jobs across the world, the company said at the weekend as it consolidated its software, hardware and applications business.

(Nigeria) Gunmen on Monday kidnapped a Kogi State High Court Judge, Mr Justice Samuel Obayomi, and killed his orderly, Cpl. Usman Musa in an early morning attack.

(Nigeria) The Osun State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Adekomi Jacob, says workers in the state will begin an indefinite strike on May 26, because of non-payment of salaries and entitlements to workers.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has thanked the electorate in the state for overwhelmingly voting for the party in Saturday’s local government elections.

(Nigeria) Public Interest Lawyers League, PILL, has frowned at the crude, gestapo-style manner that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Police and the Attorney General of Federation, AGF, have conducted themselves in arresting Senator-elect, Mr Buruji Kashamu, over an alleged drug related offence in the United States of America.

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has fixed May 26 to begin hearing in the petition filed by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Jimi Agbaje on the outcome of the in the state.

A Tunisian soldier opened fire on fellow troops at a military barracks in the capital Monday, killing seven people before he was himself killed, a spokesman for Tunisia's Defense Ministry said.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed the purported conduct of local government elections on May 23 in the state by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hit back Monday at criticisms of his country's security forces over the fall of the western city of Ramadi to Islamic State jihadists.

Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Burundian capital Bujumbura on Monday after an opposition politician was killed at the weekend.

(Nigeria) Thousands of Euro currency was found on the body of a terrorist commander after Nigerian troops successfully repelled a terrorist on Mafa towards the border.

The Candyman regularly hosts bikini parties at his Playboy-style mansion on the Gold Coast in Queensland A brunette beauty has been named the first 'Candy Shop Mansion Goddess'. Gold Coast model Parnia Porsche was crowned the title by tobacco tycoon Travers Beynon, dubbed 'The Candyman' as they celebrated at an extravagant Italian restaurant on Wednesday night.

Takeover: ISIS raised their flag over an ancient citadel in Palmyra while state television is reporting they have killed hundreds of women and children Islamic State militants have executed at least 400 mostly women and children in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, they captured last week.

Zedi Feruzi was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Ngagara district of the capital Bujumbura, being buried.  Many of Burundi's opposition figures have gone into hiding after the killing of Zedi Feruzi, leader of the Union for Peace and Development party, a major opposition said.

United States Defense Secretary Ash Carter has criticised Iraqi forces for showing no will to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL group during the fall of Ramadi, in comments dismissed as "baseless" by a senior Iraqi legislator.

(Nigeria) As the Federal Government assigned therapeutic experts to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in victims of terrorism, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA,  Muhammad Sani-Sidi has warned against stigmatising the girls and women rescued from Boko Haram in the North East saying only six of them returned with pregnancy.

Ukraine’s troops have deployed about 1,000 artillery units and multiple launch rockets systems, as well as more than 45,000 soldiers and about 3,500 other weapons in Donbass, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defence ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, said on Sunday.

Ireland's gay citizens woke up Sunday in what felt like a nation reborn — some with dreams of wedding plans dancing in their heads.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has signed into law a bill amending the tenure of the Vice Chancellor of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma from a four-year renewable tenure to a five-year single non-renewable tenure.