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The death of a black woman in a Texas jail three days after a traffic stop took on new urgency Tuesday after authorities released a dash-cam recording of her arrest. 

(Nigeria) Edo State Government has given marching orders to Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the state to block all leakages and fraud in their departments and ministries or face the repercussions.

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has called on Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to re-establish their office in the state.

(Nigeria)  A rented crowd claiming to be representatives of civil society organisations under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Liberties and Equity on Tuesday, attempted to stage a “protest,” calling for the removal of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde.

(Nigeria) The trial of a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, and his co-accused person, Osarenkhoe Afe, who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for a N2 billion fraud, witnessed a new twist July 21, 2015 when Justice Gabriel Kolawale of the Federal High Court, Abuja, said he intended to return the case file to the Chief Judge for reassignment. 

(Nigeria) Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP, a civil society group,  has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to stop the on-going dredging of the Atlantic Ocean and building construction on the Eko Atlantic City by the Lagos State Government and private investors because of the destructive impact of the project on the aquatic life in the entire Nigerian territorial waters and the environment of the coastal communities.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday adjourned till July 24, to rule on an application by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, seeking to discharge the ex-parte order restraining the commission from implementing the new electricity tariff billed to be effective from June 1, 2015.

(Nigeria) The Enugu State Police Command said on Tuesday that it had arrested two suspected cultists.

(Nigeria) The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Major General Abayomi Olonisakin has re-stated his readiness to provide new strategic and operational direction in the prosecution of the fight against terror in the country.

(Nigeria) Detained Chief Security Officer, CSO, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Gordon Obua on Tuesday, said he was hale and hearty and being treated with dignity by the management and staff of Department of State Security Services, DSS.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, on Tuesday announced Mr Calistus Obi as the Acting Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the agency.

(Nigeria) Residents of Diobu in Port Harcourt on Tuesday commended Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for the ongoing rehabilitation of roads in the area.

(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.