Vice President Namadi Sambo, on Wednesday said that time was ripe for Nigerians to live above poverty level because of the abundant natural resources of the country.

Libyan government forces struck the coastal city of Misrata with dozens of Grad rockets on Thursday, killing eight people, a rebel spokesman said.

The Church of England said,Wednesday, that it would soon launch a crackdown on sham marriages within its fold across the UK.

The Joint Military Taskforce says it has seized a barge allegedly carrying an unspecified quantity of crude oil in the Niger Delta.

Detectives at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba, Lagos, yesterday, said investigation into the death of a Senior Secondary School III boy, whose lifeless body was found dangling from the roof of an uncompleted building in Badagry area of the state, weekend, was still on to determine whether it was a case of suicide or murder.

LECTURER at the University of Benin and Returning Officer in the controversial National Assembly election in Ovia South West Local Government Area, Paul Iroghama, was yesterday, remanded in the Oko Prisons, Benin till April 21, 2011, the next adjourned date in a suit filed against him by the Edo State Commissioner of Police. Iroghama who was arraigned at the Magistrate Court 2 in Benin City before Magistrate I.V Iyoha was charged with tampering with results of the National Assembly election in the Local Government Area.

Following the bloody clash between students of two secondary schools in Ibadan, on Tuesday, the Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Dr, Nureni Aderemi Adeniran, has ordered indefinite closure of the two schools. The schools involved in the crisis included Community Grammar School, Kudeti and Ibadan City Academy, Eleta.

IT was a solemn moment, Wednesday, as the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and former Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, broke down in tears while lamenting the problems confronting the country.

ACTION Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, formally pulled out of alliance talks on presenting a joint candidate with the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, for this weekend’s presidential elections.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has adjourned to May 11, to rule on the application by wife of the former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr. Francis Atuche, Elizabeth, in which she is seeking to defreeze her personal account that was frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.