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(Nigeria) The Homicide Section of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspects as it commenced investigation into the killing of an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Salawe Daramola.

(Nigeria) Some indigenes of Ibaa in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, have called on the Inspector-General of police to investigate the ongoing crisis in the community.

The world football governing body FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against British comedian Simon Brodkin for trespassing, the Zurich city police said on Tuesday.

Germany's Foreign Ministry says it's asking the United States  government to clarify the latest spying allegations published by WikiLeaks.

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home on Tuesday after a weeklong hospital stay to treat a "stubborn infection" and is under doctors' orders to rest, his South African foundation said.

The nuclear deal with the international community was a great defeat for Iran's archrival Israel, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday during a speech to Parliament.

Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, has stopped activities of an interregional organized criminal group involved in the organization of channels of supplies of weapons from the European Union counties and Ukraine to Russia, FSB reported on Tuesday.

Toshiba Corp president Hisao Tanaka said Tuesday he had resigned to take responsibility for an accounting scandal after a third-party panel found the company had inflated its profits by 151.8 billion yen ($1.22 bn) over seven years.

Russia’s work on designing and developing the Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is at the third stage and tests will start in 18-24 months, Aide to the Strategic Missile Force Commander Igor Denisov said on Tuesday.

(Nigeria) Professor Chike Edozien the Asagba of Asaba will be inducted into the newly created Asaba Hall of Fame on Tuesday as part of the series of events lined up to immoratlise him for his role in the development of the Ancient and historic town which is the seat of Delta State Government.

(Nigeria) President Barrack Obama on Monday expressed confidence in the ability of President Mihammadu Buhari to tackle the multiple challenges facing Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked his United States counterpart, Mr Barrack Obama to help Nigeria in tracing and returning the $150 billion in funds stolen in the past decade and held in foreign bank accounts on behalf of former Nigerian corrupt officials.

(Nigeria) The immediate past Senate President, Sen. David Mark on Monday, stressed that there was no secrecy with regards to the affairs of the National Assembly.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has denied media reports that he hosted Governor Nyesom‎ Wike of Rivers State, twice at the Supreme Court.

(Nigeria) Three police officers were killed in a bomb blast during a vehicle search at a checkpoint outside the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, Yobe State on Monday, police and a witness said.

(Nigeria) The Management of Kano Pillars FC on Monday announced the sack of the club’s technical adviser, Okey Emordi, with immediate effect.

Malaysia called Monday for an international tribunal in the downing of a commercial airliner over Ukraine that killed 298 people a year ago.

Disgraced FIFA president Sepp Blatter sensationally had a bundle of fake banknotes thrown over him by a comedian who gatecrashed his press conference in Zurich today.

(Nigeria) Bishop Emma Isong, General overseer of Christian Central Chapel International, Calabar,  Cross Rivers State, has described gay marriage as a negation of African culture.

A suicide bomber killed no fewer than  28 people and injured 100 others in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border, during an event at a cultural centre attended by a pro-Kurdish youth group.

The first step towards lifting economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for its agreement to curb its nuclear programme came Monday as the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a recent international agreement reached with Iran. 

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have opened fire at the positions of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic militias in Gorlovka at the time when armored vehicles were being withdrawn from there, the Donetsk News Agency reported on Monday.

Nearly 2,000 troops from 18 countries are taking part in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO’s Saber Guardian/Rapid Trident-2015 exercises that started in Ukraine’s western Lviv region on Monday, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.

(Nigeria) As President Muhammadu Buhari officially meet with President Barack  Obama in Washington, DC this week, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,  SERAP, has urged President Obama to “back up his expressed commitment on stolen assets by taking thoughtful and aggressive steps to deal with the problem with the seriousness and intensity that has been previously lacking.”

(Nigeria) Maj.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the acting Chief of Army Staff, has launched ``Operation Lafiya Dole'' as a new code name for a fresh impetus by the military to tackle the activities of Boko Haram. This replaces the former ``Operation Zaman Lafiya''.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday arrived Washington DC on 4-day official visit to United States where he would discuss bilateral issues with President Barrack Obama and other government officials.

(Nigeria) Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Monday denied speculations that that his administration was planning to sack 10,000 workers.

(Nigeria) The family of Mr. Gordon Obua, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has called on the Department of State Service, DSS, to release their son.

Militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, have begun withdrawing from the line of engagement of military equipment with guns of calibre under 100mm, the Donetsk News Agency reports from a location near Donetsk, where the withdrawal takes place.

(Nigeria) The Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, on Sunday, faulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over a statement accredited to him against ex-President Jonathan, describing same  as "reckless and baseless."

The self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, LPR, begins a unilateral withdrawal from the line of engagement of the weapons under 100-mm calibre, Sergei Kozlov of the People’s militia said on Sunday.

The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, on Sunday, described President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan as a blackmail and witch-hunt.

Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen randomly shelled a town Sunday outside of Aden after losing control of some the port city's neighborhoods, killing at least 45 people and wounding 120, officials said.

South African President Jacob Zuma was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a scheduled procedure the previous day to remove gallstones, the presidency said.

The United States said it will help Nigeria's new leader to track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance to fight Islamic militants.

(Nigeria) Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has dissolved all boards of agencies and parastatals in the state.

(Nigeria) Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, an environmental pressure group has reported that there is an ongoing oil leak from Shell’s Adibawa Well 8 in Edagberi community of Rivers State.

In the face of Israeli outrage over the Iran nuclear accord, the Pentagon is moving quickly to reinforce arguably the strongest part of the United States-Israeli relationship: military cooperation.

(Nigeria) Project for Human Development, PHD, a civil society organisation, on Sunday urged President Mohammadu Buhari not to listen to the United States government on issues of Gay rights, so as to protect the laws and values of Nigeria.

(Nigeria) The Ekiti State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC on Sunday paraded two suspects for allegedly carrying out illegal abortion.

(Nigeria) The residents of Oruma-Yibama, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, have said that Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, was has yet to clean up an oil spill that occurred in the area on June 2.

Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described as false, baseless and without foundation, recent  online and other media reports that she had handed over a “dossier of corrupt deals” perpetrated by the Goodluck Jonathan administration to President Muhammadu Buhari.

(Nigeria) Four members of a suspected kidnap gang that had been terrorising residents of Omu-Aran, Kwara State, and its environs have been arrested by the police.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian troops have cleared Damaturu-Biu Road in Yobe State of mines by a team of Nigerian Army Special Forces, Explosives Ordinance Devices with support from Nigeria Police and members of local vigilante.

(Nigeria) After more than 24hours of siege, the Federal Government has ordered the withdrawal of the Department of State Security, DSS, personnel from the Abuja home of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd). It was gathered that this was however effected only after they seized his International Passports and other vital documents. Even though there is no more restriction of his movement, Dasuki still feel aggrieved that he was deprived of performing his religious obligation of attending the Eid Prayers, making the end of Ramadan Fasting. Dasuki has vowed to challenge the action by seeking legal redress in order to enforce his fundamental human rights. Meanwhile, it has been gathered that legal and diplomatic processes initiated by the former National Security Adviser have ensured that cash seized by the South African government during the cash for arms saga last year have been fully recovered by Nigeria. It will be recalled that President Goodluck J

(Nigeria) Tragedy was averted on Friday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 (MMA2) in Lagos following a ground collision of two aircraft belonging to FirstNation Airways. A similar incident had occurred at the airport on July 6, following the collision of two aircraft belonging to Emirates and Hak Air. It was gathered that Friday's incident which happened at about mid-day involved two Airbus 330 conveying not fewer than 250 passengers. The two aircraft had their bodies partially damaged as a result of the collision. A source at the airport said that one of the aircraft was taxiing from the runway to MMA2, to disengage passengers while the other aircraft was preparing to take off to Port-Harcourt Airport from the same terminal. The source alleged that the pilot may have been misdirected by the marshals who directed the pilot to taxi to the wrong part of the apron. According to the source, the Port-Harcourt bound aircraft was parked at Gate 4 while the arriving aircraft

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday thanked the Muslim faithful for remaining steadfast in their Sallah homage to all Nigerian Presidents. He expressed his happiness when the Muslim faithful paid him the homage at the State House, Abuja, after the Eid El-Fitri prayers, saying it showed their loyalty to constituted authority. ``I thank you most sincerely for fulfilling the tradition of greetings for whoever occupies this place. ``I thank you very much for you loyalty to the country, as represented by our institutions and to the system,’’ he said. The President told the visitors that during and immediately after the prayers, he was besieged by youths who almost overwhelmed the security. ``I had to hold tight to my gown to get to my car; I was advised to enter the car from the ADC’s side and I refused; I went across trying to hold my hand to the wild youth who wanted to see me.’’ He then remarked that on an occasion like this,`` it shows that after what happened to Presid

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Abdullahi Muhammadu as the Commandant-General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), a statement said. This is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday. Muhammadu succeeds Dr Ade Abolurin, who has retired from service. The statement said the new commandant-general, who was an assistant commandant-general of NSCDC, hails from Muye in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger. Muhammadu holds a B.Sc in Sociology from the University of Sokoto and a Master’s degree in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, it said. The statement added that the president wished Abolurin a happy retirement.

Four Marines were killed Thursday in twin shootings at United States military centers in the southern state of Tennessee, officials said, opening a probe into what they said was a possible act of "domestic terrorism."

(Nigeria) Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday said that his administration would enforce the verdict of the Coroner’s inquest on the September 12, 2014 Synagogue building collapse, in consonance with the rule of law.