University of Calabar (UNICAL) was yesterday shut after students violently protested alleged death of three colleagues on campus as a result of insecurity.

Rivers State government has received the approval of the state House of Assembly to borrow N100 billion to fund its infrastructure projects. According to Governor Chibuike Amaechi, the bulk of the loan would be used to make down payments before September 30, for power distribution projects that will ensure uninterrupted power supply in the state by 2012.

African Union (UN) leaders ended their emergency meeting in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, at the weekend, disagreeing on their response to the capture of Tripoli by the NATO backed rebels and the setting up of a new administration by the National Transition Council (NTC).

Security experts are blaming government bureaucracy and lethargy on the part of the intelligence community for the ease with which terrorists pick their targets leaving behind casualties.

The Governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, is inviting private investors all over the world to come up with viable proposals, aimed at developing tourism in the state, with a view to achieving the state government target of increasing its internally generated revenue to N7.5 billion by 2015.

Seven persons including a new-born baby and five women were on Friday killed while about 20 others went missing during a downpour that lasted several hours in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

FBI agents have arrived in Nigeria following a suicide attack at UN headquarters in the capital Abuja that has left at least 19 people dead, a US embassy spokeswoman said Saturday.