Lapped by the waves of the Atlantic and visible at only low tide, a mysterious rock inscription believed to be centuries old and so far undeciphered lurks outside a French village in Brittany. The town hall in Plougastel-Daoulas in the Finistere region of Brittany in northwest France is now offering a 2,000-euro ($2,250) reward for anyone who can decrypt the sequence of letters and symbol. Locally, the rock is sometimes compared to the Rosetta Stone, the great ancient Egyptian stele now in the British Museum whose inscription was partly deciphered…

Total war against the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has been declared by the Organized Labour on Thursday over the attack by suspected thugs on union members that protested in his private residence in Abuja on Wednesday. Labour in its resolution read by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Ayuba Wabba directed workers to attack the Labour Minister and any member of his family anywhere they were sighted. Briefing journalists at the Labour House, the organized labour said that instruction had been given to workers…

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, yesterday signed into law a newly passed bill on the appointment and deposition of emirs. Essentially, the law created four new traditional institutions and emirate councils each with a substantive first class title of emir. They are Gaya, Karaye, Rano and Bichi. The emirate council is further expanded with new districts and domains under which the five independent traditional institutions will operate. By the new arrangement, the Kano emirate will now cover 10 local government areas, Rano emirate (10 local government areas), Gaya emirate (eight…