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(Nigeria) Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Wednesday warned a Lagos hotelier, Augunos Okoro, standing trial for duping a German businessman the sum of $330,000, against acts and devices aimed at stalling his trial.

(Nigeria) Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, varied the bail conditions for the embattled National publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh.

The updated strategy of the United States army command in Europe is perplexing, Alexander Grushko, Russia’s Permanent Representative to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television news channel on Wednesday.

(Nigeria) The Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, said observance of the rule of law by government was critical to good governance in the country.

(Nigeria)The leadership crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday took a new dimension as Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, the former Special Assistant to President Good Luck Jonathan on Political Matters declared himself as PDP National Chairman.

(Nigeria) Mr Felix Obuah, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairman in Rivers, has dedicated Governor Nyesom Wike’s victory at the Supreme Court to God.

(Nigeria) Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has  declared  that  his victory at the Supreme Court is a victory  for  the  rule of law and the people of Rivers State.

(Nigeria) The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, after  upholding the outcome of the April 11 governorship election that brought him to power.

(Nigeria) The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Command, Lagos, on Wednesday, said it seized smuggled goods worth N6.9 million between January 13 and January 26.

No fewer than seven people have died of flu complications in Moscow since December, Alexey Khripun, a deputy head of the Moscow health department, said on Wednesday.

Ukraine has officially declared a flu epidemic in the country as the outbreak of the deadly virus has claimed the lives of 83 people.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, submits to the Contact Group for consideration draft amendments to Ukrainian Constitution, DPR’s envoy at the negotiations Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday.

Six people including a toddler were found dead on Wednesday off the shores of Kos island after a boat transferring refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece sank, the Greek Coast Guard said.

(Nigeria) The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday in Abuja said that N387.8 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for December, 2015.

  Cross River State Government and Canada have identified health, fishery and agro forestry as areas of collaboration for skills acquisition, trainings and micro financing for entrepreneurship.

(Nigeria) An unimaginable drama, on Tuesday,  stalled the cross-examination of prosecution witness, Abu Sule in the case involving a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, as prosecution counsel, Festus Keyamo, alleged how the accused’s son, Emeka Ohakim, had allegedly went on the trail of the prosecution witness.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Army has denied a media report that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has sealed property belonging to its Chief of Training and Operations, Maj.-Gen. Yushau Abubakar.

(Nigeria) An Abia State based human rights activists under the aegis of Abia Human Rights Agenda numbering over 50 organisations has  condemned the increasing trend of extra judicial killings in Aba.

No fewer than 50 Russians have died of flu since the outbreak of the epidemic, a senior official of the Research Institution of Influenza said on Tuesday.

  (Nigeria) Senetor Oluremi Tinubu (APC-Lagos Central) says the budgetary allocation of N4 billion to the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development was inadequate.

(Nigeria) An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ekiti State on Tuesday ordered the remand of a 16-year-old boy docked for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) The Police in Enugu State said they had discovered three decomposing corpses and a human skull in a bush at Ugwuaji in Enugu South Local Government Area of the state.

(Nigeria) The Legal Adviser to the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mr Bali Ndam, on Tuesday testified that the N400 million contract awarded to Olisa Metuh’s company was not vetted.

(Nigeria) National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has urged the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru, to ensure that the East-West Road was completed.

An Afghan policeman turned his weapon on fellow officers as they were sleeping in their quarters near a checkpoint in the country's south, killing 10, a provincial spokesman said Tuesday.

(Nigeria) The security details of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, had a hectic time keeping overjoyed market women, children and other residents of the 2nd East Circular Road in Benin City at bay, on Tuesday, as the residents surged out in their large numbers singing praises and trying to have a feel of the governor for the ongoing construction of their road.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has not asked Russia for political asylum, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

Federation of International Football Association, FIFA's ad-hoc Electoral Committee has formally admitted five candidates to stand for the presidency of soccer's global governing body at an election on February 26, it said on Tuesday.

Russia is in talks with no one on Crimea’s returning back to Ukraine as Crimea is a Russian territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

Multiple bombings targeted a government-run security checkpoint in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding over a hundred amid intense political jockeying ahead of United Nations-backed peace talks scheduled to begin in Geneva Friday.

(Nigeria) The National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Monday said the harsh economic situation in the country was beginning to affect the operations of the party.

(Nigeria) Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on Monday called for the establishment of strong institutional structures to ensure the success of the fight against corruption.

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has condemned the gruesome murder of Obi Ofulue III, the Obi of Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state and promised to unmask the assailants.

A United Nations backed peace agreement to end the split between Libya's two rival governments ran into trouble Monday when one of the country's two parliaments blocked a key clause.

(Nigeria) A former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, was again on Monday arraigned before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, on charges of fraud and forgery.

(Nigeria) Former Minister for Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has describe as “a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan,” the petition by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana, dragging her International Criminal Court, ICC, sitting in the Hague, The Netherlands.

(Nigeria) The Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Edo North, Senator Francis Alimikhena has caution politicians in Edo State against unguarded utterances ahead of the 2016 governorship election so as not to heat up the polity.

(Nigeria) Dr Dominic Ukpong, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Health, on Monday, said two suspected cases of Lassa fever were recorded in the state.

(Nigeria) Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has expressed sympathy to the management and staff of Pacesetter 103.5 FM station over the fire incident that gutted the station.

(Nigeria) Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Mr Gazzali Mohammed,  has confirmed the arrest of some suspects in connection with Sunday attack on four villages in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

The death toll from the flu epidemic in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg has reached 20, a local health official said on Monday.

(Nigeria) Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja  has convicted and sentenced  an undergraduate of  Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia,  Hope Olusegun Aroke to 24 years imprisonment for his involvement in an internet scam that fetched him Four Thousand riaait (N25million).

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  on Monday, its case of Money Laundering against Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Spokesman, Olisa Metuh, at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

Iran and Saudi Arabia should take every step to de-escalate the tension between them, Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Monday.

(Nigeria) A 47-year-old unemployed man, Dare Shodeke, who allegedly defiled an 11-year-old girl was on Monday arraigned in a Tinubu Magistrates' Court, Lagos.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Shehu Mustapha, Registrar Litigation, Adamawa State High Court and Binanu Esthon, former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Yola chapter a Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal diversion of funds to the tune of N60million.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday adjourned till February  9, 2016 for the arraignment of 15 accused persons and two companies, facing a N2.6 billion fraud charge.

(Nigeria)) The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA,‎ has increased the price of Household Kerosene from N50 to N83.

(Nigeria) The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that there is no selective justice in the fight against corruption by the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

(Nigeria) No fewer than 1280 workers in the employ of Ekiti State Government have sat for the 2014 public service promotion examination which is a pre-requisite for their elevation to the subsequent  grade level.