Katsina – Academic and non-Academic staff of three tertiary institutions in Katsina Sate are to proceed on a three-day warning strike on March 15.

The German government ordered a freeze on Thursday on bank accounts in the country held by the Libyan Central Bank and the Libyan Investment Authority.

Kaduna, March 10, 2011 (NAN) The Nigerian Army on Thursday in Kaduna solicited the partnership of the media for the successful conduct of the April general elections.

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has sent the 2010 appropriation virement proposal to the Senate for approval.

-THIRTY-FOUR Secondary Schools in Enugu State are to be upgraded to Boarding institutions this year, as part of the state government’s programmes to improve the education sector

Lokoja – The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kogi, Alhaji Abubakar Ahmadu, has said that the 7,003 persons arrested for multiple registration will soon be prosecuted.

Forbes magazine has yesterday, released the 2011 World’s Richest People list with Nigeria’s own Industrialist, Aliko Dangote rated as the 51st Richest man in the world, with a networth of $13.8 bn and richer than Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg who made the list for the first time with a networth of $51.3 bn at the 52nd position.

THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, said that political leaders should be elected based on their capacity to deliver the dividends of democracy, rather than ethnic and religious sentiments even as former President Shehu Shagari expressed optimism that President Goodluck Jonathan would emerge victorious in next month’s presidential election.

Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has vowed not to cover up corrupt persons in his party now supporting his presidential ambition if elected President of the country.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, asked an Abuja division of the Court of Appeal to set aside the Federal High Court judgment that stopped the commission from conducting governorship elections in five states of the federation next month.

Justice Ibrahim Auta of a Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, denied reports that he issued an order that stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from going ahead with its planned timetable for the conduct of the forthcoming general elections.

Indications have emerged that Unity Bank Plc and Wema Bank Plc have come out of the woods regarding the findings of the 2009 stress test jointly conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).

WOMEN politicians in the South East geopolitical zone, including those contesting various elective offices in different political parties, have met in Enugu to seek ways of enhancing their chances in the April 2011 general elections.

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has flagged off the first phase of its Agricultural Credit Scheme, expected to touch the lives of 1,660 youths from 166 cooperatives in the Niger Delta region.

FOREIGN firms handling projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in the region have been accused of non-performance by the House of Representatives.