Osun State governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the 2007 general election, Chief Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday lost his bid to have a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, restrain the Inspector- General of Police, from arresting him over alleged forgery of police document.

A Ukrainian Cargo plane loaded with weapons that was impounded by Nigerian security operatives last June flew out of Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, yesterday.

Agege area of Lagos was yesterday thrown into pandemonium following rumour of an ethnic clash between Hausa and Yoruba.

Rising from a meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, the leaders threatened to give a damning verdict and take hard-line postures should President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua fail to heed the call for the reversal of the continued marginalization of the people of the Niger Delta.

When asked in an interview in the Daily Trust of Monday July 27, 2009 why he and his followers would not surrender to the authorities, the late leader of the Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf claimed that his members were simply being massacred and that giving themselves up will tantamount to committing suicide:

AFTER sev eral attempts to meet with the aggrieved Governors of the South-South geo-political zone, President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday held a crucial meeting which lasted for about four hours with them behind closed doors.

Going by the agreement mutually entered into by the parties, the $35,153,822.15 debt amounts to N4,499,689,235.20 at the rate of N128/$. The value of the draft represents net settlement after taking into consideration AP’s credit balance of N1,554,384,195.51 on its account with the bank.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has said the recent sectarian crisis in parts of the Northern Nigeria which claimed hundreds of lives including yet-to be identified workers, is evidence of failure of governance.

Receiving members of the House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties (Boundary Matters) on a courtesy visit yesterday in Asaba, the state Deputy Governor, Professor Amos Utuama (SAN), said “boundary disputes have often turned do-or-die in Nigeria since the oil economy was introduced. Before the oil economy, nobody was talking of boundary disputes.

Expressing their anger, the villagers said it was embarrassing that they had been strangled by government for several months by the non-payment of compensation to them as agreed over the demolition and destruction of the houses and farm crops years after they were persuaded to abandon their homes and business premises to allow government carry on with its projects.