Officers investigating the case of a boy’s torso found floating in the River Thames are planning to visit Nigeria.

The recent upward review on the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will have an effect on lending rates with further restrictions to net private sector credit flows, in addition to the narrowing spread on returns and moderation of yields on fixed income securities.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till May 24, 2011, for the arraignment of the former Managing Director of Union Bank Plc, Mr. Bartholomew Ebong, and five others on a fresh 20-count charge, bordering on fraud brought against them by by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

THE 2011 presidential contest was, last night, enveloped in a game of intrigues over possible alliances by opposition parties against the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Intercontinental Bank’s shareholders, yesterday, endorsed the signing of Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on business combination between the Bank and Access Bank Plc, describing it as the surest safety net for their investments

THE power play between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Olugbenga Daniel is reportedly getting more intense.

COMMERCIAL banks in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, resolved to close doors to customers, from today, following the withdrawal of mobile policemen from the banks on the orders of the Inspector General of Police.

SENATOR Annie Okonkwo, who represents Anambra Central in the Senate and is seeking re-election on the platform of Accord Party, has received a boost in his quest to return to the Senate with his endorsement by the traditional ruler of Alor, Igwe J.C. Nkwoka

The embattled gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John James Akpan Udoedehe, will remain in Police custody till tomorrow when a Federal High Court in Abuja will rule on his bail application.

Three mid-dle-aged men, Kingsely Akhabue, Fabian Matthew and Ismaila Fatoki, were, yesterday, found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court.

THE Nkwelle Ezunaka community in Oyi local government area of Anambra State yesterday asked the Federal High Court sitting in Awka to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting the April 2011 general election at Ward 12, GRA, Onitsha, unless the area was designated an Nkwelle Ezunaka Ward.

NO fewer than 9,000 security personnel would be deployed to provide security in Edo State, next Saturday, during the National Assembly elections.

Rivers Peoples Congress, has called on opposition gubernatorial candidates in the state to step down for the incumbent, Governor Chibuike Amaechi in next month’s elections.

The embattled Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Rufus Akeju was on Monday quizzed by the Police over alleged assault on the state correspondent of the Leadership Newspaper, Mr. Sefiu Ayanbimpe

THE emerging global political thought is that most government leaders in developing economies solve personal and parochial problems with public funds while ignoring the common-health of their people.