The Naira, yesterday, recorded first appreciation at the official foreign exchange market, gaining 21 kobo against the dollar.

The Cubs of Cameroon will be clashing with group leaders, the Flying Eagles of Nigeria today in a game pundits have dubbed the final before the finale in the 2011 CAF Orange African Youth Championship tournament.

IT is a wicked irony that the more things change, the more they remain the same. In some parts of the world, the campaign periods are the best times for the people in government to showcase and try to portray themselves as saints, even where they know that they represent the devil here on earth.

THE governorship election coming up next Tuesday harbours a number of flashpoints. Apart from Kaduna and Kano, the contest in Kwara will determine whether it is still Dr Olusola Saraki or Dr Bukola Olusola Saraki or even Senator Ahmed Tinubu who will be the new godfather.

Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Abia State for next week’s election, Chief Stanley Ohajuruka, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to direct that the gubernatorial contest in the state be as free as the last presidential election.

MILITANTS under the aegis of the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, last night, threatened to revenge the killings of Christians, especially those from the South-South in the some northern parts of the country by those protesting the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the April 16, presidential poll.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has warned that it could not afford the luxury of folding its arms and watch helplessly as Ndigbo continue to be slaughtered in the Northern states.

THE Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of zone C, Calabar, AIG Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday charged officers and men of the Nigeria Police not to give room to the monetary inducement from some desperate politicians who are in the habit of denigrating the image of the police for their own selfish interest.

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in Gudu, Abuja, has cautioned former House Committee Chairman on Power, Ndudi Elumelu, his counterpart in the Senate, Senator Nicholas Ugbane and Jibo Mohammed, all standing trial for alleged N5.2 billion fraud in the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, to refrain from antics capable of delaying their trial.

The Federal Government, yesterday, sent 38 former militants to the United States for skills acquisition training, in furtherance of its post-amnesty programme.