A LAST minute rally by seven Governors to salvage the candidacy of Governor Timipire Sylva of Bayelsa State for a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP failed, yesterday, as a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan was inconclusive.

UYO – Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, ICEN, has predicted that the efforts by Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to collect $235 million from British Airways, BA, over alleged abuse of dominant positions may not yield fruitful results as the country had no Antitrust Law.

MINISTER of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has expressed shock at the level of infrastructural decay in the Federal Government Technical College, Awka, Anambra State, regretting that the situation was almost the same in all unity schools he had visited across the country.

A 33-year- old woman, Josephine John, has been arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate Court, over an alleged stealing of N16 million ($100,000) belonging to Alcateco Bureau de Change, where she worked.

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, explained the delay in forwarding the 2012 budget to the National Assembly, saying the executive was consulting with the legislators and did not want to rush the budget.