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BREAKING NEWS: Russian Plane Crash: ISIS Release Picture of 'Schweppes Drinks Can Bomb Used in Attack'

Islamic State claims this picture reveals the bomb which brought down the Russian jetliner killing 224 people - disguised as a drinks can.

The image appeared in the latest edition of the extremists' magazine Dabiq.

The edition celebrates the recent Paris attacks and is entitled 'Just Terror'.

The magazine also claims to have images of passports belonging to victims who perished after the Metrojet flight exploded over Sinai.

AT LAST! PRESIDENT BUHARI ANNOUNCES MINISTERS

President Muhammadu Buhari shocked some Nigerians on Wednesday afternoon when he finally assigned portfolios to the confirmed Ministers of the Federal Republic. This happened at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja during the inauguration of the Federal Executive Council, FEC. The President however announced himself as the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources.

Below are the newly sworn-in Ministers and the portfolios they got:

The full list includes:

1. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Minister of Labour & Employment

2. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Minister of Solid Minerals
3. Rotimi Amaechi – (Rivers) Minister of Transportation

UK Police Recruit Yoruba Speakers

The British Metropolitan Police Service has said four Yoruba-speaking officers have joined its fold.

This was contained in a response from the service to an enquiry by our correspondent.

According to the Information Manager of the MPS, Yvette Taylor, the service released the information having observed the 20 working days as stipulated in the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Taylor, in the response, said, “You have asked about Yoruba-speaking new police recruits. We currently do not have information regarding candidates who applied for the latest language campaign as we are still at the very early stages of the recruitment process for this campaign.

BOKO HARAM: Buhari Confident Stronger Military Coalition Good Enough To Overcome Insurgence

President Muhammadu Buhari said Friday in Abuja that with the formation of a stronger regional coalition, Nigeria and neighbouring countries now have an increased capacity to deal effectively with Boko Haram and other terrorist groups.

Speaking at an audience with Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa, President Buhari reaffirmed his belief that the full activation and deployment of the Multi National Joint Task Force which has been established under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission will lead to the speedy defeat and elimination of Boko Haram.

Kaduna Refinery Commences Production of 2 Million Litres of Petrol Daily - MD

The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company (KRPC), on Friday said it was currently releasing two million litres of petrol daily into the market, as it resumed partial production.

The Managing Director of the company, Saidu Muhammed said this in an interview with NAN in Kaduna.
　
He said that the company, which was undergoing rehabilitation, would raise its production output to five million litres of petrol daily by March 2016.
　
Muhammed disclosed that two of the company’s production lines had been rehabilitated, thereby facilitating the refining of about 60,000 barrels of crude per day.

He assured that the KRPC’s production level would hit 90 per cent by the second quarter of 2016.

EBOLA: WHO Declares New Vaccine 100% Effective

The world is for the first time on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as data from a trial in Guinea showed a vaccine was 100 percent effective.

Initial results from the trial, which tested Merck and NewLink Genetics' VSV-ZEBOV vaccine on some 4,000 people who had been in close contact with a confirmed Ebola case, showed 100 percent protection after 10 days.

The results were described as "remarkable" and "game changing" by global health specialists.

"We believe that the world is on the verge of an efficacious Ebola vaccine," WHO vaccine expert Marie Paule Kieny told reporters in a briefing from Geneva.

The vaccine could now be used to help end the worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 11,200 people in West Africa since it began in December 2013.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the results, published online in the medical journal The Lancet, were an "extremely promising development".