India shuts down internet after deadly protests

    Internet access was cut in India's northeastern city of Guwahati on Friday as thousands gathered for fresh protests against a new citizenship law, a day after police shot dead two demonstrators.

  Protests erupted this week after the government introduced new legislation that many in the far-flung northeast believe will give citizenship to immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh, and which other critics say is anti-Muslim. On Friday morning thousands gathered in central Guwahati as riot police looked on, with residents hurrying out to buy essentials.

Nigeria's 1987 football star, Philip Osondu is dead

 

  Philip Osondu, who was one of the best players of Nigeria’s Under-17 Golden Eaglets’ exploit in Canada in 1987, is dead. He reportedly died in Belgium at the age of 48 after taking self to the hospital to be examined yesterday.

Electricity workers suspend strike

 The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended the strike it embarked upon on Wednesday.

    The union took the action, which lasted 24 hours, after a 21-day ultimatum issued Saleh Mamman, minister of power, to implement its demands. It had said there was no other option but to down tools since Mamman failed to initiate a dialogue before the ultimatum lapsed at midnight on Tuesday.

Court orders arrest of Diezani Alison-Madueke

   A high court in Adamawa has ordered the arrest of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, for allegedly giving a bribe of N362 million to INEC officials to influence the outcome of the 2015 presidential election.

  Nathan Musa, the judge, gave this order on Thursday while delivering judgement against Ibrahim Umar and Sahabo Hamman, two staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who received the bribe from Alison-Madueke.

Former National Chairman of APC speaks on crisis rocking the party in Edo, describing it as “tragic and unfortunate”

   Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun, on Thursday spoke on the crisis rocking his party in Edo, describing it as “tragic and unfortunate”. NAN reports that Oyegun, who was first Executive Governor of Edo, spoke with newsmen on the sideline of the 22nd investiture of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) in Lagos.

DR Congo’s Ebola death toll hits 2,209

 
   The death toll from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has climbed to 2,209, the African Union said on Thursday. The AU said the figure represented the situation as of December 8.