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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.