Unconfirmed reports have it that several people were killed on Friday when two bomb explosions occurred at a market in Madagali town, Adamawa State, North East Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged political stakeholders in Rivers State to ensure that Saturday’s legislative re-run election in the state is peaceful and orderly, adding that the election should not be treated as a do-or-die affair.
A gubernatorial aspirant, Joe Agi, who contested the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary election in the state in 2015, had asked the court to sack Ayade over false declaration of age but the apex court held on Friday that Agi could not prove the allegation against the governor.
The Supreme Court has ordered the federal high court in Abuja to retry the case instituted by Umaru Dahiru, challenging the emergence of Governor Aminu Tambuwal, as the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 primary election held in Sokoto State.
At least 53 persons lost their lives in a road accident that occurred along Benin-Agbor-Onitsha express road, precisely at Abudu town in Edo State, on Thursday.
South Korea's parliament has voted to impeach President Park Geun-Hye over a corruption scandal. The motion passed by 234 votes to 56, meaning some members of Park's ruling Saenuri party voted in favour.
