South Korea offers high-level talks to North Korea

The South's minister overseeing North Korean affairs, Ryoo Kihl-jae, made the offer at news conference

South Korea has offered to resume high-level talks next month with North Korea on a range of issues, to prepare for a "peaceful unification".

Italy ferry fire: Evacuation hampered by winds

Ships and helicopters are taking part in a major rescue operation after an Italian ferry carrying 478 people caught fire north-west of Corfu.

One person has died after jumping from the ship and another has been confirmed injured, officials say.

NEMA cautions boat operators on overloading

National Emer­gency Manage­ment Author­ity (NEMA) has urged boat operators and fun seekers on the nation’s waterways not to overload their vessels during the festive season.
The South-West Zonal Co­ordinator of the agency, Mr. Bamidele Onimode, gave the warning in Lagos in an inter­view with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Bankole’s supporters threaten to dump Ogun PDP

Following the failure of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) in Ogun to pick the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, his loyal­ists and supporters in the state may have concluded plans to dump the party.
Bankole and eight other aspirants had boycotted the last December 8 governor­ship primary election of the PDP in the state.

PDP has nothing more to offer Nigerians –Bakare

Pastor of The Lat­ter Rain Assembly (End-Time Church), Tunde Bakare, yes­terday threw a punch at the leadership of Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP), warning that economic dangers loom in the country.
At the church’s last-Sun­day-of-the-year service in La­gos, the cleric said after PDP had dominated political power in the country for 15 years, the party had shown that it had nothing to offer than poor per­formance.

2015: Don’t use insurgency, oil price to judge Jonathan –APGA BoT member

Nigerians have been urged not to sup­port the call by some people us­ing the fall in oil price and insurgency in the northern part of the country to cam­paign against President Goodluck Jonathan in next year’s election, saying such move is cheap, anti-progres­sive and undemocratic.

We have no hands in recent bombings –FG

The Federal Govern­ment has debunked insinuations that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is responsible for the spate of bombings that have been rocking some parts of the country in re­cent times.