[Guardian] Mr Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications, said that the federal government would neither be cowed nor threatened by MTN's court action against the N1.4trn (about $5.2 billion) fine which was later reduced to N780 billion ($3.9 billion), insisting that the telecommunications company risks another fine if it fails to pay on deadline.
[Premium Times] At least 20 persons were killed in a fresh explosion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Monday morning, as residents gathered around a mosque.
[Nation] Climate finance dominated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations at its 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties, (COP 21) in Paris, France.
[Zambian Watchdog] A rescue expert has strongly condemned the Zambia Airports Corporation for conducting hoax plane crashes saying a plane crash is not something joke about.
[Nation] Christmas festivities in Likuyani, Kakamega County were thrown into disarray after a man was shot dead with an arrow as he tried to intervene in a fight between a primary school teacher and his wife.
[Nation] The ancestors of US Republican Party presidential hopeful, Dr Ben Carson -- who controversially claims some ancestry in Kenya -- included members of many different tribal groups in Africa, DNA tests have shown.