Nigerian born British wannabe hip-hop star Claudia Aderotimi died after an illegal cosmetic implant to enhance her bottom went tragically wrong.

India Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi, said that rapid growth in agriculture, though necessary, is not sufficient to produce desirable nutritional and health outcomes among the socially and economically disadvantaged groups of the community.
Speaking at the inaugural session of the International Conference on Improving Health and Nutrition through Agriculture organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Dr. Manmohan Singh noted that malnutrition remains a serious problem in India and many developing countries.

Abuja – Britain is set to launch an African Free Trade Initiative as part of its effort to eliminate barriers to trade on the continent, according to a statement.

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointments of vice chancellors and registrars for the newly established federal universities.

Maiduguri – A Maiduguri High Court on Wednesday granted bail to 65 suspected Boko Haram members arrested over the recent killings in Borno.

PLANS by Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State to decamp from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were put on hold, yesterday, after he was offered a political solution out of the crisis that uprooted his loyalists from the party’s candidates’ list for the April elections.

In a desperate move to end the ongoing industrial action called by medical doctors under the employment of the state, the state government, yesterday, adjusted its salary structure for medical and dental officers in the state. The new adjustment is the second time in one week.

The Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan will today hear a suit filed by the coalition against the second term ambition of the Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala.

The Gani Fawehinmi chambers in Lagos, wound up on January 15, 2011 following an instruction contained in the last Will of the Late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN. Though the family, staff and clients gathered recently for a ceremony to wind up the chambers

THE Presidency yesterday distanced President Goodluck Jonathan from suggestions that he called names when he said that the “the south west is too important to be left in the hands of rascals.”