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Three villagers were beheaded during weekend raids in Cameroon by Boko Haram insurgents from neighbouring Nigeria, who killed another four people in a separate raid overnight, security forces said Monday.

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to provide solutions to burning national issues.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja summoned All Progressives Congress, APC, members in the House of Representatives for meeting in order to find lasting solution to the leadership crisis in the House.

(Nigeria) Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has commended the initiative of Mr. Jim Ovia, the Chairman of Quantum Petrochemicals Company Limed for establishing a $1.5 billion methanol plant in Ibeno of the state.

(Nigeria) Mr Haruna Jauro has formally taken over from Mr Calistus Obi as acting Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.

(Nigeria) Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, Monday, said he will not resign his position no matter the pressure individuals or groups would put on him.

(Nigeria) Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI, has expressed worry with the arrest and harassment of the Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Gecilia Khan and some of her staff by the Department  of State Service, DSS.

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Police Command said it has arrested a 16-year-old boy, (names withheld), over the alleged murder of a four-year-old boy in Ijaniki area of the state.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned six persons before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on a 17 count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and forgery.

The Saudi-led coalition launched new airstrikes in at least two Yemeni provinces Monday, piercing a humanitarian pause that started at midnight Sunday, security officials and witnesses said. 

Ukraine’s biggest Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant in the Donetsk region got under shelling and had to stop operations, press service of the managing company CenterEnergo said on Monday.

The presidents of China, Russia, Iran and the United States are scheduled to speak at the 70th annual United Nations General Assembly of world leaders in September — a rare appearance for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the first for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Russia has no plans to deploy Tu-22M3 bombers in Crimea, Russian Air Force Commander Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said on Monday.

Kurdish forces in northern Syria captured a key town along the Euphrates River from the Islamic State on Monday, while charging that Turkey has shelled Kurdish villages in the area.

(Nigeria) Two men, Samson Akintiye and Rasaki Rauf,  who were alleged to have throwing a man into a river and killing him, were  on Monday in Ota, Ogun State, remanded in prison.

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has dragged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and the University of Lagos to court over “outrageous cut-off marks decisions.”

Afghanistan police said on Monday that no fewer than 20 people were killed and 10 others wounded when a gunfight broke out at a wedding ceremony in northern part of the country.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died Sunday at 22 years old, media reports said. 

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that the emergence of Abdulwaheed Odusile as the President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, is a reflection of the commitment of members to move the union to a higher level.

(Nigeria) The managements of Pipelines Products Marking Company, PPMC and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Wednesday confirmed an oil pipeline explosion at Arepo, Ogun State.

(Nigeria) Two structural engineers, indicted by a Lagos Coroner Inquest over collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, building on Wednesday asked a Federal High Court, Lagos, to quash the verdict.

A car bomb killed at least 16 people and wounded 30, Wednesday in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, a police colonel said.

Eleven people were killed on Wednesday in northern Cameroon when two girls blew themselves up in twin attacks in a region repeatedly targeted by Nigeria-based Boko Haram jihadists, officials said.

(Nigeria) The Department of State Security, DSS, has released Mr. Gordon Obuah, Chief Security Officer to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Implementation of agreement on nuclear programme and lifting of sanctions will improve Iran’s position in the region, but will not be detrimental to other countries, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a governmental session on Wednesday.

(Nigeria) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has apprehended 14 suspected drug dealers in Bayelsa State.

(Nigeria) The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Owerri, Imo State on Wednesday struck out the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, on grounds that it was filed out of time.

(Nigeria) A Gudu Upper Area Court, on Wednesday remanded 23-year-old Kelvin Eboh of Apo New Site, FCT Abuja, in prison custody for alleged rape.

(Nigeria) An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates' Court in Ibadan, Oyo State on Wednesday sentenced, Ali Sodiq, 18, to three days of community service for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) Workers at the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC, on Wednesday continued their protest over what they said was unlawful sack and poor wage by the management of the company.

(Nigeria) The Yobe police command has recovered four bombs, two improvised explosive device, six mortar bombs, machine gun and two Ak47 rifles from insurgents.

(Nigeria) A peaceful protest on Wednesday marred the commencement of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, registration for the 2015/2016 session screening of candidates for the JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, has completed withdrawal of weaponry of less than 100mm caliber from the contact line in Donbas, DPR defense ministry said on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it would ban entry to French lawmakers visiting Russia’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea this week, describing this trip as "an irresponsible step."

Famous actors Gerard Depardieu and Steven Seagul and singer and composer Goran Bregovic have been put on Ukraine’s list of personae non gratae, a source in the Ukrainian government said on Wednesday.

The United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran’s nuclear program deal does not cover Russia’s supplies of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told a press conference on Wednesday.

Yemen's exiled government reopened Aden airport on Wednesday, a week after its loyalists retook control of most parts of the southern city.

No fewer than 18 civilians were killed Tuesday when a ground-to-ground missile struck a rebel-held neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.

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.