#KogiElection Stalemate: INEC to conduct supplementary election in 91 polling units by December 5; Sends notification to the political parties. [SEE The Letter]

INEC will complete the Kogi election on the 5th of December, 2015, a letter explained.

Europe Immigrants Crisis: Sweden to tighten asylum rules, border controls as asylum numbers soar

Refugees sleep outside the entrance of the Swedish Migration Agency's arrival center for asylum seekers at Jagersro in Malmo, Sweden, November 20, 2015.
REUTERS/STIG-AKE JONSSON/TT NEWS AGENCY

Sweden will introduce tighter border controls and asylum rules in a bid to reduce the number of asylum seekers reaching the country, the government said on Tuesday.

Not Business as Usual in Nigeria – Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has stressed the need for Nigerians to positively change their attitudes in order to achieve a paradigm shift in the way they do things, in line with the change mantra of the Buhari Administration.

Geopolitics: A liberal’s lament The open, globalised world faces growing threats—and too little is being done to counter them, warns Zanny Minton Beddoes

President Obama

Look around the world as 2015 draws to a close, and it is hard for a liberal internationalist to find many reasons for optimism. Yes, digitally driven technological progress—from artificial intelligence to gene editing—is dazzling, and digital access is transforming the lives of ever more people in poor countries. But on three important counts the outward-looking globalisation of recent decades is in worryingly poor shape.

Nigeria: FRC cautions govs against cutting workers’ salaries

The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has warned state governors of the dangers of cut in workers salaries following the dwindling oil revenues, stressing that such move will be counter productive as it will trigger labour unrest.

[Photo] SHAMEFUL: This is what Ogun state government gave each police division providing security at Mama H.I.D Awolowo's Burial in Ikenne Tomorrow

A loaf of sliced Bread and a tin of sardine

[Photo]: Grandfather Goodluck Jonathan poses with his first grandchild.

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan poses with his first Grandchild.

Putin warns Turkey there will be ‘serious consequences’ for ‘stabbing Russia in the back’ by shooting down one of its jets… as video emerges of rebels chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ over the body of dead pilot

This image shows the moment the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter planes near the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay, which has seen NATO call an 'extraordinary' meeting and Russian President Putin warn of 'serious consequences'

Turkey's military have today shot down a Russian war plane near its border with Syria after the jet violated Turkish air space.

Guess What Russian Air Force's 'Basic Emergency Kit' Is? 'A Machette'

Russian pilots are equipped with a small escape kit in a compartment underneath their ejector seat

Russian pilots operating out of the Latakia air base in Syria have a small escape kit to help them on the ground if they are forced to eject from their jet.

[PHOTOS] Exclusive: Read How Late Abubakar Audu Sent His Family In Maryland Out Of Their Family House; Former First lady Rendered Homeless in Potomac, MD.

This saga echoes a scene from a Nigerian home video, except that it is real. Imagine going from first lady, with all the largesse, to homeless, where you now have to depend on government assistance to survive in a foreign land. It is sad tale, but is the fate of Mrs. Aisha Abubakar Audu, former first lady of Kogi state. 

Nigerians takes their fuel scarcity frustrations to twitter. See Photos

Funsho Jacob ‏@fadafoley Nov 22

No fuel yet @ 11am, how much longer r we going 2 keep suffering n smiling??? #change #fuelscarcity @Gidi_Traffic

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused Judges of frustrating his efforts to recover funds stolen by previous government.

President Buhari and other participants of the third GECF summit

While opening the 2015 All Nigeria Judges’ Conference in Abuja on November 23, the president, who was represented by his vice Yemi Osinbajo, blamed corrupt lawyers and judges for sabotaging his efforts to recover stolen assets.

Scotland: Labour urges Nicola Sturgeon to suspend SNP MP Natalie McGarry

Questions raised about role played by MP for Glasgow East after members of campaign group said substantial amounts of donations had gone missing

 

Natalie McGarry’s lawyer said she was ‘certain that there has been no wrongdoing on her part’. Photograph: Drew Farrell/drew farrell

Nothing to fear except fear itself: Southwest Airlines accused of profiling Muslims

SOUTHWEST Airlines has come under fire for its supposedly targeting Muslim flyers. In one incident last week, reported by NBC, Anas Ayyad, who runs a pizza restaurant in Philadelphia, and his friend Maher Khalil, were asked to step aside before boarding the plane. The problem was caused when a fellow passenger, who had heard them talking in Arabic, claimed to be too afraid to fly with them. When they learnt that they would be denied entry onto the flight, Mr Khalil telephoned 911. “I didn't know what to do, so I called the cops," NBC reports Mr Khalil as having said. The pair were later allowed back on board.

See Who Is Ready To Be Davido's Next Babymama?

Cynthia Morgan

Just weeks after Davido welcome a baby with his babymama, Cynthia Morgan has declared that she is ready to have something with him if he is ready and that she's crushing on him. Lol! Indicating her seriousness, she said:

British Embassy In Nigeria To Be Shut Down If UK Goes Ahead With Deportation Of 500 Nigerians

Time ticks away for the British Government as from November 22, 2015 to ensuring all Nigerians being detained, tortured, traumatised and dehumanised in various Immigration Detention Centres all over United Kingdom and Europe are released unconditionally in 14 days, else by retaliatory way, British citizens in Nigeria would be deported, British Airlines/Products would be boycotted and there is every reason to believe that British citizens in Nigeria will be deported.

Nigeria: ‘I never accused Tinubu of killing Abubakar Audu’ – Governor Okorocha

Imo Governor Rochas Okorocha | Maestro Media

The special assistant to the Imo State governor on Information and Communications Technology, Ik Ogbonna, has denied the alleged statement made by his boss on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s involvement with the passing of APC’s gubernatorial candidate in the Kogi State election, Prince Audu Abubakar, and called it a “tale full of thrash.”

Nigeria: We won’t stifle free speech, but social media Influencers must self-regulate – Lai Mohammed

Alh. Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured that the Buhari Administration will not stifle free speech by seeking to regulate the Social Media or abridging the rights of the citizens.

Audu’s death is a big blow to Nigeria – Orji Uzor Kalu

An industrialist and former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has described the late Kogi State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, as a consummate politician whose death is a big blow to the nation.

TIME's Person of the Year: Nikki Minaj, Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton Among The Shortlisted

Who should be TIME's Person of the Year?

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