A group of ex-bankers, disengaged during the 2005 bank consolidation by the Central Bank Nigeri, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene over the non-payment of their N9.8 billion terminal benefits.

The management of Warri Wolves Football Club says it was shopping for no fewer than six players to fortify the team for the 2012 Premiership League.

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) and petroleum tanker drivers in Aba, Abia, have given NNPC/PPMC a 14-day ultimatum to pump petroleum products to Aba depot or face service withdrawal.

A widow, yesterday, escaped death by the whiskers after she jumped from a storey building to escape from a raging fire that gutted the house.

MINISTER of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, weekend, said the reason for the persistent scarcity of kerosene in the country, was because construction companies, use at least 26,000 litres of kerosene per every kilometre of road constructed.

Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS, in Delta State have arrested five suspects, including a Onitsha-based housewife for allegedly kidnapping a six-year- old boy from a church.

Federal Roads Safety Commission, FRSC, has arrested and arraigned 600 motorists before mobile courts between December 20 and 23 for contravening various traffic rules and regulations.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has listed unbearable energy costs and high interest rates as the greatest impediments to businesses in 2011.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State weekend said despite the strident calls against the removal of oil subsidy, Nigerians should never contemplate the coming back of the military.

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, yesterday, described the Christmas day bombings in parts of northern Nigeria as “a senseless criminal behaviour by enemies of humanity.”

Seven Nigerian pilgrims to Jerusalem, including two priests and a woman, have alleged poor treatment in the hands of Israeli security operatives, saying they were unjustly detained in prison for about 11 hours without committing any offence.