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American aid worker and former soldier Peter Kassig was beheaded by ISIS terrorists, the White House confirmed Sunday, hours after a video claiming to show the victim surfaced online. ISIS held Kassig as a hostage and in previous communications had threatened his life. The video shows the aftermath of a beheading in which the victim is not clearly recognizable. President …

Ado Ekiti—The Minister of State for Health, Dr Khaliru Alhassan has expressed concern over the current strike action embarked upon by the health workers in the country, urging them to suspend their action immediately in the interest of the nation. Health workers under the umbrella of Joint Health Staff Union, JOHESU, are currently on nation-wide strike to press home certain …

A former National Publicity Secretary of the now rested Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Rotimi Fashakin, has ruled out the possiblity of a Muslim becoming the running mate of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. He said Buhari would rather choose a southern Christian as his running mate. …

The greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is that of leadership. Nigeria needs a leader that the people can identify with and can inspire them to great heights. NigeriaIt is sad that 54 years after independence, Nigeria still lacks a leadership culture, without a role model for upcoming ones to aspire to be like. It is either “I was drafted to …

The Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial district and Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Bukola Saraki is set to join former U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton and other members of the Clean Cook Stove Alliance Leadership Council, in New York at the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves Future Summit to be hosted by the United …

ABUJA—The Federal Government, yesterday, introduced some austerity measures and scaled down the crude oil bench mark for the 2015 budget. In a bid to insulate the economy from falling crude oil prices the federal government announced far-reaching policy measures to deal with the crashing crude oil prices, cutting 2015 oil benchmark from $78 to $73 per barrel. Crude oil prices …

The Adonte Community in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta, has appealed to the State Government, to provide potable water in the area. The Obi (traditional ruler) of Adonte, Emmanuel Offor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Adonte on Sunday that his subjects had been without potable water for 24 years. The traditional ruler said the public …

Traders in Akwa Ibom have called on the state government to ensure transparent disbursement of the state’s share of the N220 billion Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) loan to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). The President, Conference of Akwa Ibom Traders (CAIST), Chief Christopher Usoro, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in …

Boko Haram has massacred scores of children, gloated about the kidnap and enslavement of more than 200 teenage girls and killed thousands more in a brutal five-year uprising to create a strict Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. But the Islamist rebels’ latest video aimed at showing an unidentified community happy to be under their control is a departure for a …

Suspected Islamic militants have hacked to death a university professor in western Bangladesh, several years after he led a push to ban students wearing full-face veils, police said Sunday. Police have arrested at least 20 people for questioning over the murder near Rajshahi University in the west of the Muslim-majority country where the victim was a professor of sociology, a …