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The Chairman of the Presidential Declaration Committee, Dr. Haliru Bello, Friday, confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan will 11th of November formally declare his intention to run for a second term in office. Dr Bello, a former Minister of Defence spoke with state house correspondents in Abuja at the end of the inaugural meeting of the committee He said the venue …

Indications emerged Friday that the members of Boko Haram sect have agreed to release the Chibok girls, latest Monday, next week. This was made known by a self-acclaimed secretary General of the insurgents, Mallam Danladi Ahmadu. This message of hope is coming few days after some women were abducted from Waga Mongoro, a community situated between Gwoza town of Borno …

Tunisian security forces have stormed a house in a Tunis suburb to end a stand-off with armed militants, killing six people, officials said. One gunman and five women were killed in the raid on the house in the Oued Ellil area, officials said. An interior ministry spokesman described all six as “terrorists”. A second gunman and a child were also …

In less than two months after he accused Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, former governor of Borno State and former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika of being sponsors of the Boko Haram sect. Stephen Davis this time has accused the opposition party of hindering the release of the Chibok schoolgirls. Further to the delayed release of the girls and …

Tunisia’s transition to democracy serves as an example of how to defeat extremists such as the Islamic State jihadist group, the leader of the country’s powerful Islamist movement said. “The success of the Tunisian experience is in the international interest, especially in the fight against extremism and the fight against Islamic State and similar groups,” Ennahda head Rached Ghannouchi said …

Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say. The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they took place a day after the military announced it had agreed a ceasefire with the Boko Haram group. The government hopes the Islamist group will free …

Stephen Harper described the attacker as a terrorist and promised to “redouble” anti-terror efforts. The gunman, reportedly a Muslim convert named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, shot and killed a soldier at an Ottawa war memorial before entering parliament. It came a day after a Muslim convert killed a soldier in Quebec. Mr Harper described that earlier attack as a plot inspired by …

A snowplough driver at a Moscow airport has said he lost his bearings before a collision with a private plane in which Total boss Christophe de Margerie died. Vladimir Martynenkov told Russian TV he was unaware he had entered the runway. Mr Margerie, 63, chief executive of the French oil firm, was killed in the crash along with three crew …

Abuja—The United Nations Children’s Education Fund has said that about 150,000 children die annually in Nigeria as a result of poor sanitation and the intake of unsafe water, which results in diarrhea. UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Chief in Nigeria, Mr. Kanaan Nadar, disclosed this on the occasion of the 2014 global hand washing day celebration in Abuja. Nadar called …

Abuja – The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, has assured Nigerians that the economy is growing positively in spite of the reduction of oil price in the international market. Okonjo-Iweala, who stated this on Tuesday at the 2014 Ministerial Platform in Abuja, said the nation was not broke as being speculated in the media. She said “if you look back two …