With clashes between the army and protesters degenerating into bloodbath, the United States and European Union have issued travel restriction on the West African country which relies on tourism to generate substantial revenue for its economy.

Chelsea’s much-anticipated Stamford Bridge clash against Manchester United became the most notable Premier League casualty to be hit by heavy snow this weekend.

What would have been a major disaster, few days to Christmas was averted by the combined efforts of fire service men,members of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NDSC, the police and staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, when an explosion occured along the NNPC pipelines around Isheri Olofin in the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raised an alarm over what it described as a plot by some forces to scuttle the nation’s anti-graft war by destabilising the agency ahead of the 2011 elections.

THE Supreme Court on Friday nullified the local government election conducted in Osun State in 2008, just as it sent all the 30 local council area chairmen in the state packing.