REPENTANT militant leaders in the Niger Delta, under the auspices of Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, LPCDI, yesterday, said the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, died in 2009 and added that any claim or threat from a faceless group claiming to be MEND should, henceforth, be ignored by Nigerians.

Denouncing the claim by MEND that it was responsible for Tuesday’s explosion at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, Warri, Delta State, the ex-militant leaders, in a statement by LPCDI president, Pastor Reuben Wilson, said: “MEND ceased to exist from the day we

Two suspects have been arrested for selling illegal firearms and dried leaves believed to be Indian hemp, in separate operations at Pokuase and James Town in Accra.

While George Kamatu, 41, was apprehended at Pokuase, Michael Lawson, 29, was arrested at James Town in Accra, on Tuesday night.

Lawson was arrested around 9 a.m. after a police dispatch team had spotted him at the Palladium area, near James Town, when he was about to

That was the stage name for a young man who won the title of Miss Jacaranda at a drag queen pageant in Zimbabwe. He refused to give his real name because he feared for his safety in a country whose president has described homosexuals as "worse than

An invasion of venomous spiders forced British authorities Wednesday to close a school in southern England, amid warnings climate change has boosted numbers of the arachnids.

Officials temporarily shut the infested Dean Academy secondary school in Gloucestershire, western England, so that pest control experts could exterminate the false widow spiders.

Britain has this year seen a huge increase in numbers of the