CONFERENCE of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, Wednesday, rejected President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal for a single term of six years for the president and governors, describing it as an attempt by the president to elongate his tenure through the back door.

Leaders of some opposition political parties on Wednesday urged the government to drop the idea of tenure elongation and tackle problems facing the country.

The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has said that of the yearly 800,000 global deaths from malaria infection, about 300,000 are Nigerians.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague Wednesday invited Libya’s rebel council to appoint an envoy to take over the Libyan embassy in London after expelling diplomats loyal to Moamer Kadhafi.

Norway’s intelligence chief said Wednesday there was no evidence the self-confessed author of the attacks that killed 76 people had links to other cells, as a bomb scare underlined the country’s anxiety.

The Plateau State Government has said the barring of females from wearing trousers at the state secretariat and other government offices was part of the campaign against indecent dressing.

Anambra State government has denied any relationship with an Islamic bank as claimed by governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, while defending the proposed Islamic bank financial policy before members of the House of Representatives last Thursday.

The Federal Government has opened talks with the World Bank, African Development Bank and U.K’s Department for International Development, DFID, to curb youth unemployment.

BARELY 48 hours after the Delta State Governorship Re-run Petition Tribunal, Asaba, dismissed the petition by Chief Great Ogboru, the governorship candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, challenging Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s victory at the re-run poll, the two men will return to the tribunal, today.