2015: Tinubu urges Nigerians to be vigilant

As Nigerians prepare to enter the year 2015, former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, has called for vigilance.
In a New Year message, Tinubu stated that as the nation prepares for the 2015 general election, vigilance is the price the citizens must pay for their democratic rights and liberties.
He noted that it behooves on the citizens to either vote for continuity of the present order in the country or for a change.

Nigerians To Value My Achievements When I Leave - GEJ

President Goodluck Jonathan believes that Nigerians will truly realize all the good he did for Nigeria only when he leaves the office.
Speaking December 30 when paid a Christmas visit by a delegation from Bayelsa State,
Jonathan also promised to try hard to meet the expectations of Nigerians in general and
Bayelsans in particular.

Why Jonathan did not visit Chibok—Yakasai.

      
  Elder statesman and chieftain of the PDP Alhaji Tanko Yakasai over the weekend explained why
 he thinks President Jonathan didn't visit Chibok. He said:

“Why I think the president’s decision not to visit the area is not bad is because we were all aware of the deteriorating level of insecurity in that part of the country. We all know it was too risky for the president to visit Chibok at that time. The president is not a soldier,

UNSC set to vote on Palestinian resolution

Security Council to vote on ending Israel's occupation and a peace deal within a year at 22:00 GMT on Tuesday.

United Nations Security Council is expected to vote shortly on a Palestinian draft resolution  that calls for a peace deal with Israel within a year and an end of the Israeli occupation of  Palestinian territories by late 2017. Jordan's UN Ambassador Dina Kawar said Arab delegations had agreed the draft should go  to a vote as soon as possible. It was later announced that the vote would take place at 22:00 GMT.

Gmail access disrupted in China

Google's popular e-mail service remains blocked while pro-state media blames Internet giant for the shutdown.

China operates the world's most extensive and sophisticated Internet censorship system

China has blocked the last remaining way to access Google's popular e-mail service, Gmail, experts have said, as authorities work to establish "Internet sovereignty" by controlling what enters the country via the web. Gmail, the world's biggest e-mail service, has been largely inaccessible from within China since the run-up to the 25th anniversary in June of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

Gunmen kill 15 in northeast Nigerian town

Suspected Boko Haram fighters open fire in Kautikari village, near the Cameroon border, witnesses and police say.

Gunmen believed to be from Boko Haram have opened fire in a remote town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and a security source have said. The attack on Monday night targeted Kautikari, near the Cameroon border, just 10 kilometres from the village of Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls, who still remain captives, were abducted in April.

Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Azharul Islam found guilty of war crimes committed during 1971 independence war against Pakistan.  Azharul Islam was found guilty for the killing of more than 1,200 people in Rangpur [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]

Bangladesh's war crimes court has sentenced a leading Islamist leader to death for rape, mass murder and genocide during the country's 1971 liberation war.