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There was pandemonium at the Omole bus stop on Oba Ogunnusi Road in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Tuesday after a traffic warden, Sunday Charles, engaged in fisticuffs with a motorist, identified only as Kingsley.

The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has directed all officers of the Nigerian Army who have not declared their assets to do so immediately, the Nigerian Army said in a statement Thursday. The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, quoted Mr. Buratai, a lieutenant general, as giving the directive Wednesday during a conference with principal staff officers and Directors serving at the Army Headquarters.

Unidentified gunmen have entered Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, North Pakistan and opened fire on students and staff as they gathered for a poetry recital. Pakistani officials say that at least 20 people have been killed and four attackers are now dead

                                              The world's oldest man, Yasutaro Koide, who was last year presented with a framed certificate from the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, has died on Tuesday at the age of 112 in central Japan, a local official said. Koide, born just months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, died in hospital in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, where he had lived for many years, said the city official. The super-centenarian, recognised as the world's oldest male at 112 last year, died of heart failure and pneumonia, the official added.

                            The Federal Government has alleged that 55 former government functionaries and top businessmen stole N1.34tn from public treasury in eight years. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the allegation at a press conference to announce a National Sensitisation Campaign against Corruption in Abuja on Monday. Although Mohammed did not disclose the authority for the allegation, he categorised the officials involved in the corrupt practices to include former state governors, ex-ministers, former legislators, civil servants, bankers and other businessmen.

China has officially ended its controversial one-child policy, with married couples now allowed to have two children. The change, which was prompted by concerns over the country's ageing population and shrinking workforce, was announced in October by the ruling Communist Party and takes effect from the first day of 2016. The policy was instituted in the late 1970s, and restricted couples to only a single offspring through a system of fines and even forced abortions. For years the authorities argued it was a key contributor to China's economic boom and had prevented 400 million births. Families in rural areas were allowed to have children if the first was a girl, while ethnic minorities were allowed an extra child, leading some to call it a "one-and-a-half child" policy. But it also led to heart-breaking losses for would-be parents, and prompted sex-selective abortions or infanticide targeting girls because of a long-held social preference for boys. China...