BASTARD! That is perhaps the most insulting word you can use for a Nigerian. It is therefore not surprising that retired General Olufemi Olutoye is at war with some of his kinsmen just as former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayoshe is with ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Nigeria’s total debt stock as at the third quarter of the year is put at $32.5 billion, according to a review of Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, carried out by the Centre for Social Justice.

While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

A total of 11 African countries showed a greater than 50 per cent reduction in either confirmed malaria cases or malaria admissions and deaths over the past decade, a new World Malaria Report has revealed .

The Chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, welcomed the Federal High Court judgment recognising his election, even as he put the burden of reconciliation on aggrieved party members who he tasked to seize opportunity of the judgment to come on board.

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has described the recent actions of the National Assembly regarding the Electoral Act 2010 Bill as self-serving, selfish and most unpatriotic.

ACTIVITIES marking this year’s Holy Ghost Congress, an annual spiritual retreat of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, started yesterday with millions of people from different parts of the country who have started arriving since Sunday taking part.

THERE is no doubt that the new found love between the Presidency and the National Assembly regarding the consistent efforts to amend the 2010 Electoral Act is geared towards rigging the 2011 presidential primaries in January.

Nigerian Bottling Company Plc announced, yesterday, that it plans to delist its shares, currently valued at N41.26 billion, from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

THERE is a popular saying that beside every successful man is a hardworking and prayerful woman.
That is the story of the indefatigable Clara Oshiomhole, wife of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress and now Governor of Edo State.

Eagles striker Victor Obinna Nsofor has hinted that he will not be returning to Inter Milan, when his loan deal expires at the end of the season.

After hitting it big in 2007 as one of the world’s topmost mobile handset manufacturers, Sony Ericsson’s fortunes began to dwindle and by 2009 it was almost out of the chart. However, in 2010, the company has refused to be bogged down by that misfortune but admitted that though those periods were trying times, they also helped in strengthening its operations to what it has become at the moment.

Residents of Ebute- Metta area in Yaba, Lagos State were woken up December 11,2010, by cries of anguish. The cause of the outcry was the strange discovery of dead bodies of two members of the vigilante group guarding the entire vicinity.

THE Senate and House of Representatives, yesterday, beat a retreat in their confrontation with the nation’s 36 governors over amendment to the Electoral Act that would make the federal lawmakers members of their political parties’ National Executive Committees.

The Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola will on December 26, be special guest of honour at the final of the 2010 Apapa Mock Nations Cup.