THE Ughelli based legal practitioner, Mr Stewart Egedegbe, who was kidnapped Saturday night, has been released after three days in the den of his kidnappers.

Nigeria dropped eight places on the FIFA World rankings for February, which was released yesterday. But Ghana moved up a step to replace Egypt as the top African nation.

Anti-Smuggling Team of the Nigeria Customs Services has recorded N347.2 million seizures in the South-south, Southeast in its December 2010 operations.

Aero has increased flight frequencies to Abuja and Port Harcourt, following improved passengers’ traffic.

Enugu State Commissioner for Transport and Capital Territory Development, Mr John Egbo, has said that traffic light violators in the state will now pay fines.

One of the greatest challenges of governance in Nigeria is the inability of most of the leaders and political office holders to document the account of their stewardship to the people, reports Japhet Alakam.

The Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority, NEPZA, has petitions the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, urging him to intervene in the persistent actions of the Controller in charge of Lilypond Customs command in respect of the operations of the Free zone and Lekki Free zone in particular.

BENIN- THE final rite de passage of the late political icon, Chief Anthony Eromonsele Enahoro who passed on to glory on the 15th of December 2010 began at the Sam Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin Wednesday with Nigerians from all walks of life paying tributes to him.

Friday, January 28, 2011, is a day the staff of Imo State Customary Court of Appeal will not forget in a hurry. This is no thanks to a mysterious fire that completely razed the Court building located in the high brow Commissioners’ Quarters, Owerri. None of them had any inkling of the disaster that was lurking around the corner. But by Saturday morning, the once beautiful edifice had become a ghost of its former self.

In fact, the policemen were not envisaging any immediate problem but they were however, very conscious of the fact that surprises might spring up from any corner. Hence, they were not only at alert but poised to respond to any eventuality.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has said he would fight it out to ensure that Peoples Democratic Party fields its governorship candidate in the April election.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released a list of reference codes for online renditions of returns for microfinance banks (MFBs).
The CBN, in a release on its website on Monday, said that the move followed the conclusion of the workshop on “On-line rendition of returns to the CBN by MFBs” held on November 1, 2010.

Developed countries have been admonished to promote investments in African countries rather than providing Aids for the continent.
President , Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said investment is the only way the continent can achieve real growth and development.

Shareholders of Geo-Fluids Plc have been promised of better returns in the years’ ahead, as the company’s second quarter 2010 financial looks promising.

Investors in the stock market have continued to increase their demand for the shares of banks as volume of shares traded in the banking sector on Tuesday surpassed other sub-sectors on the sectorial analysis.