From Syria we bring you this report that Russian air strikes have killed forty-five people in Latakia province. Reuters news agency quoted United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

The Liberal Party in Canada has swept the country’s general election, putting an end to nearly a decade of Conservative rule.

President ALASSANE OUATTARA of Cote d’Ivoire has promised to carry out constitutional reforms if he wins a second term in office.

At least seven United Nations police officers have been ambushed and detained illegally by suspected members of anti-Balaka Christian militia in Central African Republic.

The newly formed twenty-five thousand-strong multinational standby force of the African Union has begun training for the first time.

South African amputee athlete, OSCAR PISTORIUS, has been released from prison after serving less than one year of a five-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter involving his girlfriend, REEVA STEENKAMP.

Over sixty families have been rendered homeless by flooding in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. A community Leader, ENIATA ABIABA who spoke to correspondent UCHENDU EJIOWHOR said the flooding took the inhabitants unawares, leaving their farms waterlogged.

APC governorship candidate in Rivers State, DAKUKU PETERSIDE has sympathized with victims of flooding in some communities in Ahoa-West Local Government Area, including, Joinkrama, Akinima and Ubie.

Most petrol filling stations in Port Harcourt remains closed because of lack of products to sell to the public.

It appears the prevailing fuel scarcity across Rivers State may last longer, as efforts to end the dispute at the center of the crisis are slow in producing positive results. This is because a mediatory meeting that was scheduled for yesterday between the relevant parties failed to hold for no clear reason.