THE Thirty-Six state governors under the aegis, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF have said they were supporting the deployment of soldiers to help provide a forty-eight hours monitoring of election materials as well as the entire election process in next month’s general elections.

Unemployment is highest in the oil-producing region of the country, Mr Emmanuel Ijewere, Chairman of the Agric and Food Security Commission of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, said in Abuja on Tuesday in Abuja

Zaria The Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has expressed fear that some villages in Northern Nigeria may be washed away by flood.

The UK Government on Tuesday in London described Nigeria as the fourth fastest growing economy in the world.

Officers investigating the case of a boy’s torso found floating in the River Thames are planning to visit Nigeria.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till May 24, 2011, for the arraignment of the former Managing Director of Union Bank Plc, Mr. Bartholomew Ebong, and five others on a fresh 20-count charge, bordering on fraud brought against them by by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

THE 2011 presidential contest was, last night, enveloped in a game of intrigues over possible alliances by opposition parties against the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Intercontinental Bank’s shareholders, yesterday, endorsed the signing of Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on business combination between the Bank and Access Bank Plc, describing it as the surest safety net for their investments

COMMERCIAL banks in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, resolved to close doors to customers, from today, following the withdrawal of mobile policemen from the banks on the orders of the Inspector General of Police.

SENATOR Annie Okonkwo, who represents Anambra Central in the Senate and is seeking re-election on the platform of Accord Party, has received a boost in his quest to return to the Senate with his endorsement by the traditional ruler of Alor, Igwe J.C. Nkwoka

The embattled gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John James Akpan Udoedehe, will remain in Police custody till tomorrow when a Federal High Court in Abuja will rule on his bail application.