PERMANENT Secretary in the Ministry of Aviation, Mrs. Anne Ene-Itta, yesterday disclosed that the $76 million Bilateral Air Service Agreement, BASA, fund domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was intact.

PLEASE, do not ask me what political party any politician belongs, I frankly may not know. In this season of primaries, many politicians change parties like the chameleon changes its colours. The problem is not with the politicians; it is the effect of climate change.

An Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and a clearing agent, Ali Abbas Jega, were, yesterday, arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, amid tight security, over the importation of 13 container loads of firearms into the country, last year.

MR. Hope Adeleke, the policeman who recently lost four of his children to kerosene explosion in Oghara, Delta State, recently, yesterday, suffered another set back as he lost yet another child as a result of the explosion.

A Federal High Court in Abuja, TUesday, gave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, 72 hours to appear before it to show cause why it should not order fresh gubernatorial primary election in Kogi State.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said it would not rest on its oars until the four persons accused of masterminding the October 1 bomb blasts that killed 12 persons in Abuja whilst Nigeria celebrated its independence day anniversary, are accordingly prosecuted.

Worried that the appropriated budget for sports development might not get to the desired sports federations, the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Sports have decided to test_run direct disbursement of fund to the Nigeria Football Federation for the national teams preparation and participation in outlined projects contained in the 2011 budget.

WHILE the furore on the health of 91-year-old icon of the anti-apartheid struggle Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was on last week, our focus was on his well being, as well as lessons from how South Africa managed a matter of high concern to a global audience.

ABOUT 25 secondary school students and a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain were arrested yesterday by the Oyo State Police Command for alleged multiple registration in the on-going voter registration.

Enugu State government declared yesterday that Governor Sullivan Chime remained the state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for April elections, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had since acknowledged receipt of his nomination form.

THE Federal Government has commenced moves to review the embargo placed on admission of new set of students for the 2010/2011 academic session in the five universities in the South Eastern states, following prolonged industrial actions in the institutions.

A NEW Army formation,14 brigade of the Nigerian Army, has been established at Ohafia, Abia State, the General Officer Commanding the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Sarkin Yaki Bello, has said.

Nigeria’s FIFA and CAF executive committees member, Dr Amos Adamu will today know his fate as the world’s football governing body Appeals Committee decides on his appeal against the three-year ban slammed on him as punishment for his role in the alleged vote-for-cash scandal that rocked the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.

As registration of eligible voters for this year’s general election winds up within the next three days, controversies seem to trail payment of allowances to registration officers trained by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to oversee the exercise in Ebonyi State.

THE Niger Delta Waterways Vigilante, NDWV, yesterday, raised alarm over the clandestine demolishing of an ocean-going vessel, belonging to a notorious and very powerful Greek national, intercepted, by security agents last year, by a syndicate of bunkerers to wipe out proof of the ship’s arrest for oil bunkering.