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A woman stood next to flowers left at the War Memorial on Thursday in Ottawa. The gunman who terrorized Ottawa with a deadly ambush on a military guard and a shooting inside Parliament acted alone, the Canadian police said on Thursday, but there were new indications that he had hinted of his intentions and may have had collaborators.

At last, after months of speculations, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has declared his intention to seek re-election in 2015. Consequently, Jonathan has set up a presidential declaration committee headed by a former Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Bello Haliru.

The Nigerian Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria on Wednesday threatened to issue a sit-at-home order to protest the decision of the National Assembly to move the minimum wage from exclusive legislative list to concurrent list.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, has resigned her appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service. Sources from the Ministry of Education said she voluntarily left the civil service, Punch reports. Some are however speculating she resigned because of an alleged rift between her the governor of the state, Seriake Dickson which was triggered by her unwillingness to support him for his second term ambition. Patience Jonathan reportedly has a preference for the Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Matters, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa and is said to have resigned so she can have the moral justification to fight with the governor ahead of the approaching governorship election.

The 43-year-old Cross-riverian , who is noted to be amongst the league of entertainers that dabbled into partisan politics, has formalized his political intention and declared she is running for a seat in the House of Representatives. She has picked up the Nomination & Expression Of Interest form of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP. The star actress who is also a Samsung and Onga Brands Ambassador aspires to represent the people of Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Federal Constituency of Cross River State.

South Sudan rebel soldiers. Credit: The Associated Press According to AFP, the women striving for peace made a suggestion after around 90 females, with several members of the country’s parliament among them, had met in capital Juba to discuss the means of reaching reconciliation in South Sudan. The major outcome of the talks was reportedly to “mobilise all women in South Sudan to deny their husbands conjugal rights until they ensure that peace returns.”

There was pandemonium at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Thursday afternoon following fire outbreak in the top floor. Murtala Muhammed International Airport building on fire DailyPost reported that the inferno which occurred few hours ago covered the second floor of the terminal of MMIA, before it was swiftly put out. According to a source at the airport who didn’t want to be named, the fire started at the second floor of the terminal in the commercial department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) during a surge in electricity supply.

The Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday, granted a request by Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to access and withdraw the sum of N19 billion from the reserved fund of the state. The reserved fund was established through a law of the House of Assembly in 2008, for the state government to compulsorily save the sum of N1 billion every month. All 22 lawmakers, who attended the sitting unanimously voted for the approval of the request after House Leader, Hon Chidi Lloyd called for the approval of the request, dated October 20, 2014, and addressed to the House through the Speaker, Rt Hon. Otelemaba Dan-Amachree.

Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Third Republic governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is no match for President Goodluck Jonathan. Ezeife said he was certain that the President would defeat Buhari in 2015 with a wider margin than he did in 2011 – if the retired general emerges the presidential candidate of the APC.

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi has described his estranged party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), under which he was elected as governor for eight years, as a derailed party. Obi, who decamped to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, recently was reacting to a statement credited to Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, wife of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojokwu, where she condemned him for defecting to the PDP.

A Nigerian man, Dominic Adesanya, was arrested by Secret Service agents and dogs after jumping the White House fence.

Deborah de Robertis demonstrated her own edition of The Origin of the World. Gustav Courbet’s 19th century erotic oil painting The Origin of the World features the genitals of an (until recently) faceless nude and is roundly considered a masterpiece.

Indeed wonders shall never end, especially as we’re approaching the much talk about end time: As you read this, a controversial pastor has told ladies attending his church not to wear underwear so they can feel closer to God. The strange order was issued to female members by Reverend Njohi. Female congregants were forbidden from wearing bras and pants to service at Reverend Njohi’s church, a ministry known as Lord’s Propeller Redemption Church.