The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, debunked insinuations that it has suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, from participating in its activities pending when the allegations of corruption raised against them are properly investigated to its logical conclusion.

Most people watching the Nigerian Idol series on TV hardly remembers that her real names are Biodun Bello.

I KNEW Frederick Chiluba when he was chair of the Zambian Congress of Trade Unions. He came out to Nigeria for African trade unions meeting, and later was in Ghana for the same purpose. I still have the group photograph we took with Jerry Rawlings at the Accra meeting.

IN spite of the court ruling barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting gubernatorial elections in five states of the federation in the forth coming election, the commission has included the states in its preparations for the governorship elections scheduled for April 16, 2011.

PRESIDENT of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has emerged the richest man in Africa, for the first time, with a networth of $13.8 billion, according to a report from the Forbes annual world’s billionaires ranking, released on Wednesday.

OUR leaders swear to protect our lives and property but like most of their promises, they fail at the critical moments. When there are crises, the weaknesses of our security and emergency structures are obvious.

Nigeria’s Falcons are one week into their preparations towards the women world cup June in Germany. The coach Eucheria Uche and the rest of the team are hoping to play quality friendly games with Europan teams that will put them in a competitive mood.

The reconciliation move between the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum , NPLF, and President Goodluck Jonathan was severely damaged, yesterday, as the State Security Service, SSS arrested two key operational staff of the Forum.

Apparently worried by the poor acceptance and patronage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also called cooking gas as a source of energy in the country, Oando Plc has perfected plans and strategies to help stimulate the demand and consumption of the product.

MTN Nigeria, yesterday, announced an investment potfolio of about $1 billion to shore-up its operations in the country and maintain its market leadership. This is even as the company’s parent body, MTN Group has appointed the CEO of MTN Ghana, Brett Goschen to replace Ahmed Faroukh, who is now the Vice President in charge of the West and Central Africa (WECA) region.

There were indications, yesterday, that one of the factions of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, might have substituted some names earlier submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2011 elections

WITH only 25 days to the first in the series of elections that will hopefully produce new winners, new ideas for the country. Candidates are taking their campaigns round the country. Their concerns are wide, the issues are being raised and the cadence of their discussions denotes the importance of the issues.

A new twist has emerged in the alleged shooting of General Lawrence Onoja and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, deputy governorship candidate, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, by supposed political thugs as the Nigeria Police Wednesdaydeclared that it was not aware of any political rally by the ACN in the area the victims claimed they were shot.

Jigawa State House of Assembly has indicted former governor of the state, Senator Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, for alleged mismanagement of public funds worth over N40, 985,709,686.90 as at December 2006.

SOME primary school teachers in Enugu North council area of Enugu State were yesterday arrested by the police for staging a protest over non-payment of their salaries during the campaign rally organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state capital and attended by Governor Sullivan Chime.