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Canadian police say the deaths of nine people in three related incidents in Edmonton are probably an act of domestic violence. Paul Chapman reports

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Suspected Islamist militants opened fire in a town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and a security source said.

The attack on Monday night targeted Kautikari, near the Cameroon border, just 10 km (6 miles) from the village of Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April.

“The were about twenty, well-armed. They came in four-wheel drive vehicles and some motorcycles. Initially, I thought they were soldiers,” survivor Jonah Umaru told Reuters News Agency by telephone.

“The man running behind me was gunned down as I was fleeing. Afterwards, there were 15 people lying dead in the streets.”

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 172 women and children and killed 35 other people this month near the same area.

Violence by Boko Haram, which is fighting to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, has killed 10,340 people this year, according to a count by the Council on Foreign Relations last month.

The five-year-old insurgency has also displaced more than a million people from the northeast.

Cameroon’s army said it had killed at least 41 Boko Haram militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend.

Niger’s Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told the National Assembly on Tuesday the country is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram but did not know who in the group to address.

“We want this war stopped. If we can talk with them to stop what’s happening in Nigeria, why not,” he said, adding that one objective would be to secure the release of the schoolgirls.

Niger’s southwestern Diffa region, which borders Nigeria’s Borno State at the heart of the insurgency, has seen the arrival of more than 87,000 refugees since May of last year, according to Niger authorities.

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Three NYC fur vendors arrested and charged with dousing anti-fur protesters with bleach from six story rooftop. Mana Rabiee reports.

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APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari while announcing Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate for the 2015 presidential elections.

The Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said he is into politics to serve ordinary citizens of Nigeria.

Prof Osinbajo, who was speaking to reporters when he terminated his campaign train at a local food restaurant at the Yaba area of Lagos state, said “for me, my first and primary concern is the citizen.

“I will not be interested in politics if it does not concern the people; if it doesn’t concern men and women like myself”, insisting that “it doesn’t make any sense to me”.

The serving Pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God further noted that governments must be ready to pay for the legal services of the less privileged in the society in order to give them a voice.

“When I was the Attorney General of Lagos State, we started the Office of the Public Defender. The whole point of that was to make legal services available to every man on the street.

“We started the Directorate Of Citizen’s Rights, that was the first time in this country; now many states have Directorates of Citizen’s Rights” adding that we felt as a government, we must pay to defend the citizen when the citizens cannot afford it” he said.

Prof Osinbajo looks to be testing his popularity at every visible public place in Lagos State ahead of the elections next year.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria shared a picture on his twitter account while on a Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) on Christmas day and at a shopping mall in the Lekki area of Lagos State to campaign and woo Nigerians to vote for his party in the forthcoming presidential election.

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