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The Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Yahya Simba has revealed that former President Jonathan will lead a 33-nation observer mission to the General Election in Tanzania.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his government would only raise electricity tariffs when stability is achieved in the power sector.

Former PM ‘has questions to answer’, say lawyers for victims of IRA attacks in which Semtex supplied by Libyan regime was used  Tony Blair shakes hands with Colonel Gaddafi following talks with the former Libya leader in Sirte in May 2007. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The former prime minister Tony Blair has been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary committee looking into the failure to include UK victims of IRA violence in a compensation deal with the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images Chelsea striker Diego Costa has hit back at criticism of manager Jose Mourinho following the Blues' poor start to the new term and admitted he returned "overweight" for pre-season training. The defending Premier League champions have won only twice in eight matches in 2015-16 and currently lie 16th in the English top flight, which has led to Mourinho's methods being questioned, per Tony Banks in the Express.

BRAZIL showed Thursday it can’t win against the best without Barcelona star Neymar, losing 2-0 at Chile as qualifying in South America opened for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. It was the same story for Argentina without its Barcelona marquee player Lionel Messi, falling 2-0 at home against Ecuador. Chile won behind second-half goals by Eduardo Vargas and Alexis Sanchez. Neymar is sitting out the final two games of a four-match suspension he received just over three months ago in the Copa America. He will also miss next week’s match against Venezuela.

Following the ongoing travails of Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, over allegations of money laundry and bribery brought against her by the United Kingdom, UK, National Crime Agency, the family of Rear-Admiral Allison Madueke (Retd), husband of the former minister has finally released a statement to set the records straight.

Nobel peace prize live announcement. I was completely wrong in my last-minute tip that Denis Mukwege would win. However, I will claim the credit for my earlier, much safer prediction that no one can really predict who will get it. A point of order I should stress from the announcement: the prize goes to the quartet as an entity, not its individual member organisations, the Tunisian General Labour Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League; and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.

The Cross River Government says it is awaiting results of blood samples of a patient, who died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) with symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever. Dr Sunday Omini, Director of Public Health in the state Ministry of Health, said this on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Omini was reacting to media reports that a suspected Ebola patient died in UCTH on Wednesday.

In a shed at the heart of the Assaga refugee camp in southeast Niger, around 50 children sing and dance, masking the deep emotional trauma inflicted on them by Boko Haram. Nearby, little girls who fled the brutal Islamists in neighbouring Nigeria huddle around jigsaw puzzles, while barefoot young boys in ragged clothes or shirtless play football and table tennis.

Ashton Carter predicts reprisal attacks on Russian soil over Vladimir Putin’s military campaign to prop up Bashar al-Assad’s regime Moscow will soon start paying the price for its escalating military intervention in Syria in the form of reprisal attacks and casualties, the US defence secretary has warned, amid signs that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are preparing to counter the Russian move. Syrian troops launch ground offensive backed by Russian airstrikes Ashton Carter was talking at a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels on Thursday during which the ministers agreed to increase a Nato response force intended to move quickly to flashpoints.

Photo: iheanyiigboko DR Congo proved too slick for Nigeria yesterday in their international friendly game to hand Coach Sunday Oliseh his first loss in charge of the Super Eagles after three matches. Crystal Palace winger Yannick Bolasie located Dieumerci Mbokani, who turned sharply to fire past goalkeeper Carl Ikeme for the opening goal as early as the sixth minute.

Spencer Stone in serious condition after ‘nightlife-related incident’ Stone among three Americans who disarmed suspected terrorist in August Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who helped foil an attack on a French trainthis summer, is in serious condition after being stabbed outside a bar in Sacramento in what authorities have described as a “nightlife-related incident” that is not being investigated as a terrorist act. The Sacramento police department said officers responded to a report of a stabbing in an area of midtown Sacramento known for its nightlife at 12.46am on Thursday morning.