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The Police Service Commission on Wednesday announced the dismissal of Zakari Biu from the Nigerian police force. Biu, until Wednesday, was a commissioner of police in charge of criminal investigations in Abuja

The decision to dismiss Biu was linked to the  escape of  Kabiru Sokoto, the suspected christmas day Catholic church bomber from police custody. Kabiru Sokoto reportedly masterminded the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madala, Niger State on December 25 2011 killing 42 people , he was recently captured in Taraba state.

The decision regarding Biu’s dismissal  was taken at the meeting of the PSC which was held in Abuja today.

A statement signed by Mr. Ferdinand U. Ekpe on behalf of the chairman of the commission, Mr. Parry Osayande, said the decision to dismiss Biu was as a result of his culpability in the escape of suspected Boko Haram terrorist Kabiru Umar.

Israel believes that within 2-3 years Iran will have intercontinental missiles able to hit the United States, an Israeli minister said in remarks aimed at raising awareness of the threat it believes a nuclear Iran would pose to the world.

Analysts now estimate the longest range of an Iranian missile to be about 2,400 km (1,500 miles), capable of reaching Tehran's arch-enemy Israel as well as Europe.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said.

Passengers told of chaos and panic as the impact of the collision propelled the second train car into the first carriage, trapping dozens of people as others looked on from the busy platforms at the central Once station.

The orgy of violence and needless killings continued Monday in Lagos following the bloody clash by factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), at Idumota (Lagos Island) area of the state. At the end of the “war”, no fewer than 10 persons laid dead with many others sustaining varying degrees of injury, and properties worth millions of naira destroyed.

Last Saturday, a petrol tanker fell in Mile Two area of the city, killing five persons and burning over 39 vehicles. Last week too, nine persons were killed by the Lagos Island “Area Boys” as the struggle for power continued in the district.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Monday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from going ahead with Saturday’s governorship election in Cross River State.

Justice Abdul Kafarati issued the order following an application filed and argued ex-parte by Mr. Nmerengwa Alozie, counsel to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and its governorship candidate, Dr. Obol Patrick Okomiso, who are the plaintiffs.

Security forces patrolled an extensive market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday where an assault by suspected Islamists killed some 30 people, vendors and residents said.

Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram on Monday afternoon stormed the fish section of Baga market and sprayed stallholders and vendors with bullets, traders said.

President Goodluck Jonathan has threatened to dismiss any of his aides or any other appointee of the Federal Government who abandons his job for politics or campaigns ahead of the 2015 election.

He also revealed to his party men his government’s plan to review the implementation of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme because it had become untenable given the failure of the administration to achieve a 100 per cent deregulation of the downstream oil sector of the economy.

A woman who  gave birth to quadruplets after 17 years of marriage has advised couples in need not to lose hope, but strive to seek medical help.

Mrs Victoria Olayiwola, who resides at Abule-Egba with her husband, gave birth to three girls and a boy  at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on February 9.

Nigerian security forces say they have killed at least eight militants in fighting in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.

The army said the members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram died in an exchange of gunfire, and that troops had safely detonated three bombs.

According to news reports reaching us, we gather that suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Monday opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, a witness and a medical source said.