Despite a Federal High Court order in Yenagoa that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, set free three Bayelsa State government officials in its custody over alleged diversion of N500 million into private accounts, the embattled men may spend more days in detention as the anti-graft agency yesterday said it was not aware of the order.

ALARMED at the frequent outbreaks of violence in Northern Nigeria, especially the Plateau and Bauchi axes, the United Nations mandated its Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Mr Francis Deng, to visit Nigeria and work with the authorities to ensure the prevention of future occurrences of such incidences, especially in Plateau State.

AS the sale of the Nigerian Telecommunication Plc, Ibadan, to a core investor is being finalized; scores of concerned staff of the company yesterday staged a peaceful protest over alleged suspicious confirmation of the appointment and promotion of top management staff.

Several months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sacked the Boards of eight banks in the country, as part of effort to reform the banking sector, the action has continued to generate controversy. A group, the Renaissance Professionals, in particular has been most vociferous in its criticisms of the process, insisting that it lacks transparency

It is widely believed that there is a time to be born and a time to die. The Chairman of Lagos University Teaching Hospital Medical Board, Dr Nurudeen Olowopopo obviously did not choose Sunday March 14, 2010 as a day to die but was found dead in his swimming pool.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Tuesday, said it has issued licence to Mobitel Limited, for the utilisation of frequencies in the 2.3 GHz Spectrum Band, having emerged successful at the licensing bid concluded by the commission last May 8, by paying the specified fees of N1.368 billion.

The University of Jos lost a student during the January crisis in the state while a staff who was reported missing since the crisis was yet to be found.

THE craze for the collection of N20 at illegal check points by overzealous policemen has caused the untimely death of a 26- year-old promising Dayo Adeola in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

A LIST of 25 ministerial nominees was, yesterday, delivered to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark.

WHY should the teachers allow these children to stand outside the school compound with all these vehicles zooming past? It is dangerous, they could be killed,” noted a passenger by name, Suzanne in the Oshodi-bound commuter bus as he sighted some children in a nearby school standing outside the school gate.