JUSTICE Mudashiru Oniyanga, yesterday, faulted former AttorneyGeneral of the Federation and Minister of justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, over a plot of land the court said was illegally allocated to the Chief Security Officer of late President Umar Musa Yar’ Adua, Mr. Yusuf Tilde.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said the government would give preference to indigenous contractors in its drive to improve electricity power in the country.

THERE has been massive patching of potholes at Awka end of the dilapidated Onitsha-Enugu expressway, as the people of Anambra State expect President Goodluck Jonathan on a one-day visit tomorrow.

In what appeared a renewed onslaught against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Benue State, the state government has procured large quantities of anti-retroviral drugs valued at over N250 million for the treatment of the victims of the virus.

Imo State House of Assembly has passed a motion to set up a five-member ad-hoc committee on the lingering industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in South East states.

Central Bank Governor said in Washington on Saturday that the Central Bank will slow the pace of spending from foreign exchange reserves to defend the naira, but the present level of the naira does not necessarily need to be maintained “at all costs.”

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabo Iheajirika, has given assurance of the army’s preparedness to rise up to the current internal security challenges facing the country in its determination to defend democracy.

THE immediate past governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu, is set to clash with one of his ex-aides, the former Chairman of the Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Princess Oladunni Odu, over the Senatorial seat in the Southern district area of the state.

Nigerian athletes at the Commonwealth Games were showered with their winning bonuses yesterday and the shopping malls in the Yamuna Bank area of New Delhi made brisk business.

LEADERS in the Northern Senatorial area of Ondo State, yesterday, said the award of N2.8billion contract for three water dams by the governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko would solve the perennial water problem in the state.