Crime

Over 200 people, mostly women and children, were murdered in the early hours of yesterday following attacks on Dogo-Na-Hawa, Ratsat and Jeji villages in Foron district, Jos South Local Government Area, Plateau State.

At least 16 people were yesterday evening wounded in two simultaneous grenade attacks in the city.

One of the attacks took place in Kimironko close to the taxi park, while the other occurred at Kinamba on the way to Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre.

The grenades exploded during the heavy rain Thursday evening at around 19 hrs.

Names of key post-election violence suspects will be tabled before the Pre-Trial Chamber at The Hague Wednesday.

An International Criminal Court (ICC) official on Tuesday said prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will go before the judges to provide the names and the role they played in the chaos as requested two weeks ago.

Soldiers patrol a street in Bauchi during the Boko Haram crisis last year.

Nigerian Police spokesman Yemi Ajayi Monday says 17 officers have been detained for questioning after a video supposedly showed officers executing people after religious rioting.

A gathering of high-level international officials to Sudan, led by the head of the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping operation in the country's war-torn Darfur region, on Saturday urged all armed groups involved in the conflict to join the peace process initiated earlier this week by Khartoum and a major rebel militia.

Militias which perpetrated some of the worst violence in the last general election have transformed into criminal gangs and pose a grave threat to the nation's security.

The fourth witness called by the defense in the Thomas Lubanga trial appeared in court today but did not give any evidence in public session. The witness testified with protective measures including face and voice recognition.

The International Criminal Court has described evidence against a Darfur rebel leader accused of an attack on African Union peacekeepers variously as "weak", "scant" and "unreliable."

The Islamic administration of Al-Shabaab that controls Somalia's southern regions of Jubba has on Sunday declared holy war on Kenya over reports that Nairobi is training Somali troops.

THE murky details of SA's multibillion-rand arms deal are unlikely ever to come to light after weapons maker BAE Systems last week cut a deal with UK and US officials to plead guilty and pay fines on some charges in exchange for the dropping of probes on others.

About 108 suspects arrested in the aftermath of the sectarian riot in Jos, Plateau State during which hundreds of people lost their lives and properties worth billions of naira were destroyed, were arraigned yesterday before a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Three flow stations in the oil-rich Niger Delta have had to be closed after a pipeline was sabotaged, according to Royal Dutch Shell.

The company said the Jan. 30 leak on the Trans Ramos oil pipeline was due to sabotage, but no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Federal Government has moved to prevent total breakdown of law and order following renewed fighting in Jos, Plateau State.

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered the deployment of troops in the troubled areas, while states in Northern Nigeria have been placed on red alert.

Muslim leaders have asked youths in Mombasa to call of their planned demonstration on Friday.

The youths intended to protest in show of solidarity with Jamaican preacher Abdulla al-Faisal who has been in detention pending his deportation after he was linked to terrorism.

A Mogadishu-based right group says the death toll from the recent fighting between Somali armed groups in central Somalia has reached 138 with more than 344 others, mostly fighters from both sides injured.

Elman Human Right and Peace Group says 63,000 residents have also being displaced in the fighting which was described worst to hit the central regions.