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FERGUSON, Mo. — The police in Ferguson broke their week long silence on Friday and identified the officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager. The Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, said the officer was Darren Wilson, a six-year veteran of the force who had no disciplinary actions taken against him. Chief Jackson said Mr. Wilson had …

Boston – By Emman Okuns. Like the truth and reconciliation commission, the recent Nigeria Security Summit held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts presented participants the opportunity to speak their minds, leading to the classification of Nigeria by Harvard Professor, Robert Rotberg as a nation with all the symptoms of a failed state. Professor Rotberg who spoke at the occasion as …

Nigeria has received experimental drug from unnamed Nigerian scientist to treat Ebola virus, but the government may face a difficult choice deciding which handful of Ebola patients in Nigeria will receive the drug that could prove life-saving, ineffective or even harmful. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold …

BENIN—THE Benin National Congress, BNC, has described as wicked, the actions of some professors at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, who complained about the absence of the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Osayuki Oshodin due to illness. Meanwhile, a family source told Vanguard that the VC has recovered fully from the illness and will return to the country this …

Alhaji Auwalu Tukur has become a target of the Arewa community.  This targeting comes from a public perception of vast corruption he is alleged to be connected with. Their targeting comes from what some call his hijacking of political appointments for his wife. That hijacking, they say, benefits her relatives and his political cronies, while cornering state services that are …

Recently, Hoagokuns embarked on a free Skill Acquisition Program on Website Development for the students of Olivesfield College in Isheri-Magodo, Lagos, Nigeria. This initiative is geared at empowering the youth and making them useful for our society. The spokesperson for Hoagokuns has implored private schools to open their doors to initiatives like this to help empower their students at no …

Initial reports say people poured out of offices in the centre of the city after an evacuation warning sounded. More than 100 lorries carrying Russian aid are heading towards a rebel-controlled border crossing in the Luhansk region. There is continuing confusion over their final destination. Russia has dismissed as absurd claims that its convoy is a pretext to send military …

The historic visit is also a nod to Catholicism’s shifting demographics as an increasing number of believers come from Latin America, Africa and Asia instead of its historic stronghold in Europe. “I came here thinking of peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula,” the pope told President Park Geun-hye, who greeted him Thursday morning at a military airport south of …

The apex bank had in December 2012 suspended the payment of N100 fee per transaction by customers. The revisited policy takes effect from September 1, 2014. Remote-on-us are transactions done by a cardholder on another bank’s ATM. The central bank stated this in a circular addressed to all banks, dated August 13, 2014. A CBN circular to the money deposit …

Asked whether Omar saw Sawyer’s blood test results or whether he simply told him it was negative, the minister said, “As his superior, if a man tells you his sister died from Ebola and he could have been exposed do you not think it is your duty to ask the hard questions or maybe you could have reported this to …