Host communities in Akwa Ibom State which make undue demands, including the award of contracts to their indigenes, from contractors before the execution of projects in their areas may lose such projects.

President of Nigerian Institute of Welding and former national chairman of Peoples Progressive Party, PPP, Chief Solomon Edebiri, yesterday, formally declared his intension to contest the 2012 governorship election in Edo State on the platform of the Coalition of Political Parties, CPP

SENATE Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described the recent bombing on Christmas day in Madala, Niger State, as an act of aggression against the government and the people of Nigeria by the Muslim group, Boko Haram.

A 20-year old sales boy, Chukwunonso Anigbogu, of No.23, Gbazango Cresent, Kubwa, FCT on Wednesday appeared before an Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court, charged with stealing N263,000.

The Founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun, on Wednesday described Nigerians as timid people who could not come together to fight a common enemy.

An Ejigbo Magistrates` Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old trader, Abdullahi Balla, to three months imprisonment for stealing a cell phone valued at N20,000 and N5,000 cash.

Pope Benedict XVI will host a consistory on February 18-19 to name a series of new cardinals who would have the power to elect his successor, religious news agency I.Media reported on Wednesday.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has criticized “the failure of the government to exercise due diligence to prevent the continuing violence and unnecessary loss of lives,” arguing that “this failure constitutes a serious breach of the government’s international obligations to protect and ensure protection of the citizens’ right to life and the security of human person.”

President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed the unanimous confirmation by the Supreme Court of Nigeria of his victory in the April, 2011 Presidential elections.