Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has warned operators of Self Regulatory Organizations ( SROs) such as hotel owners, car dealers, casino operators, lawyers, real estate operators, tax consultants among others, who are part of the Designated Non- Financial Institutions, DNFIs to resist attempts by corrupt individuals to use them in laundering proceeds of financial crimes.

Her name is Comfort Sunday, but she is presently in dire need of comfort. Indeed hers is the heart-rending story of a young girl who was declared a witch and member of a secret cult by some members of her family.

Tashi N Tashi is the Executive Director, Programmes, Better Leven, an NGO based in Akwanga, Akwanga Local Government of Nasarawa State. Akwanga is about 100km, North East of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.

It was all tears Monday at the Onopa suburb of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State when the charred remains of a pregnant woman and her three year old son were evacuated from the scene of Sunday night inferno in which two other persons reportedly from injuries sustained at the hospital.

Foreign exchange inflow into the economy fell by 11.85 per cent to $2.38 billion in October, said the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Meanwhile, the Naira further depreciated on last week as foreign exchange demand more that doubled at the official foreign exchange auction.

After months of of work behind the scene, Etisalat Nigeria ’s sponsored Nigerian Idol is set to hit the airwaves. Television and entertainment viewers are in for a time of fun and thrills as the broadcast of the Nigerian Idol on selected television stations across the country commences this month.

THE Federal government said yesterday that if the country must achieve its set goal of becoming one of the top world twenty largest economies, priority must be given to the development of technical and vocational skills across the country. According to the government, it was against this backdrop that it was prepared to pay serious attention to the development of technical and vocation skills as that would help boost employment generation and poverty reduction across the country

TWO great leaders of Delta State, Deputy Premier of the defunct Midwest region, Chief James Otobo, and former Federal Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, fell out, yesterday, over the propriety of the course each of them had decided to chart with their separate groups in the state.

TWENTY-FOUR days after he was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, frontline nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro has recovered and has been discharged.

THE Senate will today hold a public hearing on the controversial Electoral Act which seeks to grant automatic members of national executive council of political parties to legislators, despite out cries from members of the public against the bill regarded by many as self-serving.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, approved the inclusion of additional 6, 166 ex-militants in the on-going amnesty programme.

As the 2011 General elections draw nearer, immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Bello Dambazau, yesterday advised the Nigeria Army to continue to maintain its neutrality, saying it was only by so doing that democracy would be allowed to naturally evolve at its own pace in Nigeria.

THE Senate Committee on Capital Market has summoned Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Arunma Oteh and Interim Administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Emmanuel Ikazoboh to appear before it, Tuesday, to answer questions relating to activities of the Commission and NSE respectively.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has expressed concern over the prolonged strike in tertiary institutions in the South-Eastern states.

MEDICAL students of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, who have been out of class room for upwards of six months on account of the protracted strike embarked upon by doctors, have been lamenting their fate, saying they were now “frustrated”.