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(Nigeria) The Senate on Wednesday rejected a move by some All Progressives Congress, APC, senators to read the letter by the APC recommending some senators to occupy other principal officers of the senate.

(Nigeria) The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, said on Wednesday in Abuja that over 64 judges had been disciplined by the National Judicial Council, NJC, between 2009 and 2014.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Alhaji Yerima Suleiman and Mr. Uwem Antia before Justice Lawal Akapo of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence and forgery. 

(Nigeria) A Yaba Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos, on Wednesday remanded a 19-year-old man, Anosike Oluchukwu, at Ikoyi Prisons over alleged murder of his 15-year-old friend, Chinonso Monyasah.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC in Kwara State on Wednesday announced the suspension of a former Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Cook-Olododo‎, and 17 others from the party.

Maj. Pallo Conteh, Head of the National Ebola Response Center, NERC, has described the three new Ebola outbreaks in Freetown as a setback in the fight against Ebola in the West African country.

Kiev forces have violated the ceasefire regime 10 times over the past 24 hours, firing more than 50 shells at the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the DPR’s defence ministry said on Wednesday.

French National Front party leader Marine Le Pen The United States is "neither an ally nor a friend of France," member of the European Parliament, leader of France’s National Front political party Marine Le Pen said, commenting on reports on eavesdropping on mobile phones of the last three French presidents.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO's Secretary-General is flatly rejecting accusations the alliance is fueling a Cold War-style rivalry with Russia, but says it must upgrade its military capabilities to be able to defend itself.

The death toll from five days of intense heatwave in southern Pakistan passed 800 on Wednesday, officials said, as hospitals struggled to cope with thousands more victims of the soaring temperatures.

The United States ambassador to France was called in to the French Foreign Ministry Wednesday to answer questions about revelations that the US National Security Agency spied on top French authorities, actions French President Francois Hollande decried as "unacceptable."

Iran's top leader has hardened his stance in nuclear negotiations with world powers as a deadline for a final deal rapidly approach, saying he rejects a long-term freeze on nuclear research and wants to ban international inspectors from accessing military sites.

(Nigeria) The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, seems to be far from over as the national chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun is being asked by some governors of the party to honorably resign.

Sickening: Filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, the horrific seven minute long video uses expensive underwater cameras to film the terrified men as they sink below the surface with no hope of escape. Vile jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have brutally murdered five prisoners by locking them in a metal cage and lowering them into a swimming pool.

(Nigeria) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Tuesday prayed the state’s Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to set aside its order on the inspection of materials used in conducting the election.

(Nigeria) Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Tuesday said his administration had no intention to down-size its workforce or slashing workers’ salaries.

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta Stateon Tuesday forwarded 12 Commissioner-nominees and members of the state Executive Council to the State House of Assembly for consideration.

(Nigeria) Following the seven month arrears of salaries owed Osun State workers, including judges in the state, Justice Oloyede Olamide Folahanmi of the Osun State High Court has petitioned the state House of Assembly, calling for the probe of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

(Nigeria) No fewer than 115 million widows in Nigeria suffer and are living in abject poverty, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, has said.

Four key foreign ministers are convening Tuesday in Paris for talks on the Ukraine crisis to try to revive a peace deal as military and economic retaliation in the conflict has become more entrenched.

The mayor of the northern Mexico border city of Mexicali says 15 elderly residents of a nursing home have died in a fire at the facility.

The number of people displaced within Iraq due to violence and fighting by the Islamic State group has exceeded three million, the United Nations said Tuesday, a grim milestone for the war-battered country.

Europe urges the Ukrainian authorities to implement the political provisions of the Minsk agreements, the Evropeiska Pravda Ukrainian edition said citing its own sources.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday validated the judgment of a court restraining any extradition process against Senator Buruji Kashamu, Ogun East- Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

(Nigeria) The Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, Mr. Christian Ita, has denied reports trending in the social media that Calabar, the state capital had allegedly come under military bombardment.

Abdel Mowgood Hassan climbs over toppled bricks and a torn-away front door to enter his uncle's house in Tikrit, the first of his relatives to make a cautious return home since Islamic State militants were driven out.

Rivalry over influence on a wide-ranging nuclear deal erupted Tuesday between the Iranian parliament and the government, when lawmakers passed legislation that bans international nuclear inspections of military sites.

(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, on Tuesday said the police would deploy 158 additional patrol vehicles to the highways following President Muhammadu Buhari‘s order to the military to dismantle check points nationwide.

(Nigeria) Two men, Emmanuel Okenze, 42, and Christopher Oshoba, 38, on Tuesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos, for allegedly kidnapping one Olamilekan Ogunbiyi and stealing N3.6 million.

The United States’ desire to control and dominate other countries destroys foundations of global collective security, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Monday.

Heavy rains in Ivory Coast have killed at least 16 people so far in June in the economic capital Abidjan, including six this weekend, civil protection said Sunday.

Rivers State Government  has accused former Governor Rotimi Amaechi of being mischievous with his claim that the probe of his administration by Governor Nyesom Wike was a witch-hunt.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the country was almost broke, pointing out that he inherited a "‎virtually empty treasury" with debts running into hundreds of millions of dollars.

A former aide to Ukraine’s Defense Minister, Aleksandr Kolomiyets, has joined the forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

An attack on the Afghan parliament in Kabul testifies to worsening of the situation in the country, the deputy to the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vladimir Safronov, told a session of the United Nations, UN Security Council on Monday.

(Nigeria) Nigerian workers and the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, may be heading for a show-down, as the Organised Labour on Monday, told Buhari not to accept the recommendation of the Transition Committee that advised him to remove subsidy from the petroleum products.

(Nigeria) No fewer than 20 people were killed Monday when a young female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, Borno State, in an attack likely to be blamed on Boko Haram.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the removal of all military check points across the country.

(Nigeria) ECOWAS on Monday, expressed its sympathy and solidarity with The Republic of Niger over Boko Haram attack in Diffa Province on June 17 which reportedly left 38 people dead.

Somalia on Monday bombed positions of the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab from the air for the first time, killing a senior commander and several other people, security officials said.

Israeli armed forces and Palestinian militants attacked civilians indiscriminately during their conflict last year, which may constitute war crimes on both sides, a United Nations, UN inquiry commission said on Monday.

(Nigeria) The Bayelsa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday said it had arrested 70 suspects for drug offences since January this year.

Police in central India arrested two men suspected of abducting a journalist and burning him to death, police said Monday.

An Indonesian court on Monday threw out an appeal lodged by a French death-row convict challenging a presidential decision to reject his request for clemency.

(Nigeria)  Senator Buruji Kashamu, representing Ogun State  East senatorial district, has described comments credited to Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, that United Kingdom courts did not exonerate him (Kashamu).

President Muhammadu Buhari has moved into the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, preparatory to resuming at the state House Monday.

President Muhammadu Buhari, has been advised by his transition committee to end a fuel subsidy programme and privatize Nigeria's four refineries, senior sources in his party said on Sunday.

Shebab militants launched a major suicide attack on Sunday against a military intelligence base in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb before storming inside, security officials said.

(Nigeria) The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, on Sunday urged the Federal Government go after the sponsors of oil theft in the Niger Delta region if it was committed to ending it.

(Nigeria) The Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed as a wild goose chase the probe of the Rotimi Amaechi administration ordered by Governor Nyesom Wike of the state.