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Syrian and Lebanese wave and flash victory signs as convoys carrying wounded Syrian opposition fighters leave the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa on Monday, reports AP. More than 100 insurgents and their families crossed from Syria into Lebanon in buses and ambulances on Monday as part of a United Nations backed truce reached with the government that saw a separate group of Syrians from two insurgent-besieged Shiite villages crossed into Turkey.

The Algerian army killed a total of 109 "terrorists," the term used by the government for armed Islamist fighters, and arrested another 36 in 2015, a defence ministry toll published Monday said.

(Nigeria) The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Monday distributed foodstuff to Christian Women Association, Kubwa Chapter, Abuja, as part of activities to mark this year Christmas.

(Nigeria) The residents of Calabar have cashed in on the final day of Carnival Calabar to make brisk businesses.

Latonya Jones, 19, holds a photo of her mother, Bettie Jones, during a vigil on Sunday, December 27, 2015, in Chicago. Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance on the city’s West Side, police said. Photo: AP Chicago police fatally shot a 19-year-old man and 55-year-old woman over the weekend, again putting a spotlight on one of the nation's largest police departments and raising questions about whether its officers are too quick to use deadly force.

(Nigeria) Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck in Maiduguri, Borno State for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 30 people were killed and the death toll could go higher.

(Nigeria)A civil society organisation,  International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, has accused Nigerian army of waging war against Igbos returning home for the Christmas and new year celebrations at Onitsha bridge, Anambra State.

No fewer than 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The city of Ramadi has been liberated from Islamic State jihadists, the Iraqi army said on Tuesday. 

(Nigeria) The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Monday says that petrol would soon be available in filling stations across the country.

(Nigeria) The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is now to allocate foreign exchange to end-users, in a bid to effectively manage the nation’s depleted foreign reserves.

(Nigeria) The police in Benin, Edo State arrested one Apostle Ikenna Okafor on Sunday for allegedly burying charm in his church premises in Benin.

Iraqi security forces on Sunday continued their advance and surrounded the government complex in the heart of the city of Ramadi, where they have been engaged for the sixth consecutive day in fierce clashes against the Islamic State militants, security sources said.

A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO force of reconnaissance planes that includes German personnel will be sent to help Turkey police its border, drawing ire from politicians in Germany who said on Sunday they were not consulted.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has sympathized  with  doctors and management  of  the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital,  Port Harcourt over the fire that gutted the Doctor's quarters of  the  hospital on Sunday.

Kurdish-led forces pushed into Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State fighters west of the Euphrates river on Sunday, defying a warning from Turkey.

Hezbollah's leader has vowed to retaliate for this month's killing of one of its high-profile figures, an assassination which the Lebanese militant group blamed Israel for.

(Nigeria) Managing Director, Petroleum Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, Mrs Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, has said that  the Federal Government will involve some security agencies in prosecuting pipeline vandals.

A Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old woman, who was among two people fatally wounded by police gunfire, according to officials with the department that's already facing intense scrutiny.

(Nigeria) A midnight inferno on Sunday consumed goods worth millions of naira at Baboko market in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

(Nigeria) Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has advises political mischief makers to allow him enjoy his peace and desist from sinister propaganda designed to draw a wedge between him and President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to cause needless distrust and distractions in the President's government.

(Nigeria) Another  catastrophe was averted in Kaduna State and other contiguous areas when troops of the Nigerian Army arrested seven suspected Boko Haram terrorists bomb and Improvised Explosive making Devices, IEDs, specialists.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the explosion took place late Saturday in the village of Kfar Shams in southern Daraa province.

Fighters from the Islamic State group and a militia controlled by a prominent lawmaker have beheaded a total of eight men in tit-for-tat revenge killings in the eastern border province of Nangarhar, an Afghan official said on Sunday.

The Ukrainian military shelled the Trudovaya Mine settlement in the western suburb of Donetsk - the Petrov district, head of the local administration Maxim Zhukovsky told the Donetsk News Agency on Sunday.

Russian pilots have never attacked civilian facilities in Syria, Chief Commander of the Russian Aerospace Force Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television channel on Sunday.

Iraqi forces entered an area housing a government compound in the centre of Ramadi Saturday, part of a major offensive aimed at dislodging the Islamic State terrorist militia from the western city, an Iraqi official said. "Security forces entered the area of Huz at dawn," a spokesman for Anbar province's police, Yasser al-Dulaimi, said, reports dpa. "They are now engaged in fierce clashes with Daesh near the government complex," he added, using an Arabic acronymn for Islamic State. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar, which stretches from the outskirts of the capital, Baghdad, to the Syrian and Jordanian borders. Large areas of the mostly Sunni province are held by Islamic State. "Elements of Daesh are scattered around Huz and inside booby-trapped buildings. We are trying hard to force these elements out of the buildings," al-Dulaimi told dpa. At least 20 Islamic State fighters have been killed so far in the clashes in the area, according to the offici

(Nigeria) The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Saturday said the Federal Government would provide medical items to aid the speedy recovery of victims of the Nnewi gas explosion. The South-East Coordinator of NEMA, Mr James Eze, said this after visiting victims of the explosion at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu, and University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State. The explosion, which occurred on Thursday, led to the death of six persons while several others sustained burns. Eze said that the government would further equip the Regional Burn Centre at the National Orthopedic Hospital in Enugu. ``NEMA commends the staff of both federal hospitals for their commitment to duty even in this festive season. ``The three victims in the Regional Burn Centre at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu, and the pregnant victim at the Intensive Care Unit of UNTH are in stable condition and responding to treatment. `` The agency would assist these

(Nigeria) The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Friday expressed her love to patients as she personally distributed gifts to them at the Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja, to mark Christmas. ``I am here today to tell you that we do not forget you. We have you in mind,’’ she told the patients. She said she was in the hospital to celebrate and share gifts to the patients, who were suppose to have been home celebrating, but rather they were in the hospital as a result of ailments. Mrs Buhari expressed happiness while sharing the gifts because of the significance of Christmas which is synonymous with sharing and exchanging of gifts among people. However, the wife of the president flayed the husband of one Mrs Hellen Agada, one of the patients with multiple operations, who abandoned her after admission. ``I am not happy when I meet a lady who had several operations and her husband ran away and left her. I think men should have feelings for their wives,’’ she said. Mrs Buhari sol

(Nigeria) The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, says it has set up a 24-hour special task force to supervise and monitor petrol sales at depots and stations.

(Nigeria) A rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari, Christmas massage, entitled  “No group will hold Nigeria to ransom again,” noting that the massage was “self-indicted because Nigeria is being held to ransom by the Presidency of Buhari; and not the other way round.”

Arab foreign ministers condemned on Thursday a Turkish military deployment in Iraq as an "assault" on the country's sovereignty, demanding Ankara withdraw the forces.

(Nigeria) The joint military and police task force deployed to protect oil installations in the Niger Delta arrested 1,605 suspected oil thieves in more than 1,000 raids in 2015.

(Nigeria) The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday affirmed the election of Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  as the duly elected governor of Delta in the April 11 election.

(Nigeria) Even as Nigerians expressed worry over Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, electricity tariff hike,  Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKDC, on Thursday commended NERC on the new tariff regime.

(Nigeria) The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Mr  Monday Igbuya on Thursday congratulated Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his victory at the Court of Appeal.

Eleven people were killed Wednesday in a bus accident in eastern Mexico, a spokesman for the local government in Jalapa said.

Three more bodies were recovered Thursday after a ferry sank off Indonesia's Sulawesi island at the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 26, with over 50 still missing, an official said.

Twenty-five people were killed and 107 others injured in a fire that ripped through a hospital in south Saudi Arabia early Thursday morning, said the country's civil defense.

(Nigeria) Coastal communities in Bayelsa impacted by the January 16, 2012 KS Endeavour Rig Explosion in Chevron’s oil field hav dragged the oil firm to a San Francisco court, United States.

(Nigeria) Five persons lost their lives early Thursday morning on the Onitsha-Enugu expressway, as a commuter bus heading towards Enugu plunged into Oji River, near Anambra State.

(Nigeria) The Ijaw National Congress, INC, has called on the Federal Government to implement the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland and other affected oil producing communities.

(Nigeria) Fire on Wednesday gutted Okeke hostel of the University of Nigeria, Nsuka, destroying the whole two-storey hostel. The fire which started at  7:30 p.m.,  could not be put out as it razed the building completely. According to a student in one of the rooms in the hostel, who lost everything, the fire started when power was interrupted and immediately restored. She said it was wrong connection of wires that caused fire. The December fire was aided by gas cylinders used for cooking by the students, which explode at intervals. The fire service truck that came from its post near the school gate could not put out by fire fighters, as they retreated.  Most of the occupants of the hostel had already travelled for the Christmas and new year celebrations, while some of them who were around were able to save any of their belongings.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government on Wednesday said it was in the process of developing a national transportation master plan that would help in diversifying the nation's economy.

A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 15 civilians on Wednesday as government forces pressed on with their offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from a major city west of Baghdad, officials said.

(Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has said that  the  state government  had to dissolve Ogba/Egbema /Ndoni Local Government Area, ONELGA, because  of high level insecurity  that has claimed lives and damaged the economy  of the area.

(Nigeria) About 150 pro-Biafra agitators and members of  Indigenous People of Biafra,  on Wednesday, dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the killings, detention and harassment of their members by operatives of Nigeria's security agencies.

(Nigeria) The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, has begun daily production of 3.2 million litres of petrol.

(Nigeria) Ekiti Youth Vanguard, a social-political group in Ekiti State, the has criticised Governor Ayodele Fayose over the way he has been wasting the state's resources on frivolous advertisements to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari and allegedly create  doomsday predictions to inflict fears in the minds of Nigeria.

(Nigeria) An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the remand of two suspected cult members in prison custody, over the alleged murder of 35-year-old Joseph Agboola.