THE Federal Government has cancelled a $2.5 billion bid for its failing telephone company, Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd, NITEL, after the bidder defaulted on a $750 million down payment, the most recent of numerous setbacks to privatise the company since 2001, an official has said.

NO fewer than 10 persons were weekend, seriously injured in Agbor, headquarters of Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, in a fresh fight between rival members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Agbor chapter, in an unsuccessful attempt to forcefully unseat the incumbent leadership of the union led by Mr Amechi Igumbor.

Recently, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar published an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan on the depressive state of the Nigerian economy.

ALL is not well at Nigeria’s premier social club, the Island Club, Lagos. A deep-seated battle for the control of the lever of power has divided the once famous and united club into at least three camps.

FOLLOWING the war of attrition between renegade militant leader, John Togo and the military Joint Task Force, JTF, in charge of security in the Niger Delta region, two Urhobo communities in Delta State have appealed to well meaning Nigerians to urgently send them relief materials to cushion the effect of the manhunt for the unrepentant militant leader.

There is no evidence so far that a Nigerian doctor, who worked at the BJ Vorster Hospital, in the Eastern Cape, is a bogus doctor, says Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. However, addressing a press conference in Pretoria on Sunday, Motsoaledi did not rule out that the doctor had a case to answer.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has given the 16 Mobile Money licensees till next month to demonstrate their competence or lose their temporary licence.

Hi Readers! The gals were enjoying themselves so much at the party for Heather, Robert and Milwan at Becky’s place that we didn’t leave, after all.

THE pathway to reconciliation between President Goodluck Jonathan and his foes in the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, has been articulated in a report of a joint committee constituted by both parties.

When in November 2010, 62-year-old Mrs Ihekoro received a telephone call from one of her sons in the United States of America informing his decision to come spend the just celebrated Christmas and new year in Nigeria, she looked forward with great expectation. Then the D-day eventually came with the excitement of seeing her son bubbling inside her. She set out in another of her son’s car on a Sunday to meet the US returnee in a hotel around Festac area, where she embraced him with tears of joy rolling down her cheeks. The family talked long into the night, until mama as she is fondly called ,was informed on the need to return back to her other son’s home