Auchi- As build up to the April 2011 intensifies, Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, said in Auchi that the country must get it right this time or be doomed.

London- A British Author, Prof. John Ilife, has lauded former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his role in the building of modern Nigeria.

Libya’s government, in it designs to clinging to power after a popular revolt, has ordered massive cash handouts include wage increases, food subsidies and allowances, state television reported.

Abuja – The battle to get a seat for a Nigerian on the CAF Executive Committee should not end with Wednesday’s loss in Khartoum, Sudan, a football stakeholder has advised.

Abuja – A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday reserved ruling to March 4 in a suit filed by Alhaji Mohammed Abacha challenging his substitution as CPC governorship candidate in Kano.

Arrangements are in top gear to host 18 of the Presidential candidates fielded by the various political parties to a debate which is billed to hold in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory next month.

-An Ebute Meta Magistrates Court, Lagos, yesterday, remanded in prison custody a suspected tout, Akeem Abdul for allegedly killing a commercial bus driver.

DELTA State Police Commissioner, Mamman Ibrahim, says that adequate security arrangements had been put in place to ensure that the ugly incident of stampede that killed people during the Port Harcourt rally did not repeat itself in Delta State, during the President’s visit to the state today

Beginning from March 1, 2011, the fee collection point in Nigeria for the United States, US, non-immigrant visas will shift from the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to the Guaranty Trust Bank (GT Bank). All persons wishing to make a new interview appointment for a non-immigrant visa application will need to pay the visa fee at a branch of GTBank beginning in March.

Global aviation industry, for the time first in flying history, recorded the lowest accident rate in 2010, with Africa recording 7.41 per cent lower that it did in 2009, the International Air Transport Association, IATA, has said.

The Federal Government, yesterday, announced the ban of the use of tinted glasses by Nigerians, including the Service Chiefs, the Inspector General of Police, ministers, members of the National Assembly, Judges and other top government officials.