The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, said yesterday that the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate is legally and morally wrong, adding that the north must produce the next president.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, tightened money supply into the economy, in anticipation of further rise in inflation, saying the economy grew by 7.85 per cent in 2010, up from 6.89 per cent in 2009.

WHILE reaffirming a bid to sustain growth in the nation’s telecoms industry via a six-point agenda in the next five years, it will not be business as usual as the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, served notice that it would enforce compliance with, and strictly enforce extant regulations and directives.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked the Senate to approve a new law which will enable him increase the numbers of justices of the Court of Appeal from 70 to 90.

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, yesterday firmly informed Dino Malaye and six other members who were suspended last June that he won’t release their salaries and other allowances, saying the case was still in court.

As part of precautionary measures against the spate of bomb explosions in the country, Governor Babtunde Fashola of Lagos State has directed relevant agencies to remove all abandoned, disused and wrongly parked vehicles, including those being worked upon on Lagos roads and inner streets, if owners of such vehicle fails to remove them.

A cloud of uncertainty was yesterday hovering over the continued stay in the federal cabinet of the embattled Minister of State for Health, Alhaji Suleiman Bello, ahead of his expected trial for corruption by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC.

Multinational oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, will appear before Dutch Parliament today to defend its environmental and human rights impacts on account of its activities in Nigeria, even as Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International filed an official complaint against Shell for breaches of basic standards for responsible business set out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD.

A Kaduna State High Court, has struck out the suit by Yerima Yusuf, against the Nigeria Polo Federation, NPF, seeking to determine the legality of the status of the NPF and whether it can lawfully conduct elections into its executive offices and regulate the game of polo in the country.

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has dismissed insinuations by some persons that the Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines used by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the on going voter registration did not capture the finger prints of people with some ailments, including diabetes, hypertension and HIV/AIDS.