After series of screening of candidates from the 41-member states of the African Union that make up Africa Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) and the subsequent interviews of those shortlisted by the corporation’s governing board, Nigeria’s Ken Aghoghovbia emerged as the newly appointed Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer of Africa Re.

A former employee of AIICO Insurance Company, Johnson Oke, was on Thursday arraigned for allegedly defrauding the company of N1. 2 million. Oke, 39, is also standing trial for allegedly using forged documents- in the name of his former employer- to transact business with its customers.

The Ogun State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has chided Governor Gbenga Daniel over his alleged plans to illegally skew the outcome of tomorrow’s election, calling on the security agencies to be on the alert to stop his antics.

AHEAD of tomorrow’s governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections in the country, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has cautioned Nigerians, especially the youths, to guard against avoidable political violence that tend to lead to loss of lives of innocent people.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has condemned in the spate of killings and other manifestations of violent criminal activities across the country.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of Action Alliance, AA, Eng. Martin Onovo, has condemned the exclusion of his party from participating in the 2011 general elections by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, saying that it was against the 2010 Electoral Act.

Nigeria is set to re-open its embassy in Cote d’Ivoire as peace is gradually restored in that country. Nigeria closed its embassy when it came under attack by supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo.

Western Delta University, WDU, Oghara, Delta State, has attained a 100 percent accreditation status for its academic programmes by the National Universities Commission, NUC.

Hundreds of Igbo families, including youth corps members, stranded in parts of the Northern states as a result of the recent post election violence have been flown back to Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, SMICA, Owerri, Sunday afternoon.

AHEADTuesday’s House of Assembly elections in Edo State, the House of Assembly candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for Akoko Edo constituency 1, Mr Anslem Agbabi, has appealed against the judgment of the Federal High Court, Benin, which held that the he is not the authentic candidate of the party for the election.

The alleged circulation of text messages, threatening reprisal attacks on Hausa indigenes in the wake of the reported killings of Bayelsa indigenes in the North is now causing fear among persons of Northern extraction resident in Bayelsa State.