Virgin Atlantic may need to merge with a rival or join an airline alliance to survive in the increasingly competitive world of aviation, which has been changed by the advent of cross-border super carriers.

A Federal High Court in Abuja, Monday, ordered an immediate arrest of two aides to the former Director of the Pensions Department, office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Sani Teidi Shuaibu, following alleged roles they played in the illegal diversion of N12 billion from the coffers of the government through fictitious claims.

Preparatory to returning to the market, Savannah Bank Plc has commenced opening of contact offices across the country, even as consultants work assiduously to ascertain what is left of the old bank.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday in Awka declared the senatorial election in Anambra Central senatorial zone inconclusive, declaring that re-run would take place in some polling units in the zone.

The Anambra State Government has debunked media reports alleging that government officials attempted to bribe an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr Alex Anene to announce Professor Dora Akunyili as the winner of the Anambra Central senatorial election conducted on Saturday, April 9, 2011.

TEARS flowed freely yesterday as the remains of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, party agent who was shot dead on Saturday by suspected thugs were laid to rest in his family house at Oke-Ero in Itoko area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

THERE was a dangerous twist to the political machinations in Delta North Senatorial District, Delta State, in respect of last Saturday’s National Assembly polls, as the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, candidate, Hon Ned Nwoko, stormed the Delta Broadcasting Service, DBS, Asaba, Monday night, insisting that he should be allowed to make a live broadcast, declaring himself the winner of the election.

Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru and other chieftains of the party, stormed the headquarters of the National Independent Electoral Commission in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday, protesting the declaration of Dr.Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the Delta North Senatorial seat.

Ivory Coast politician Laurent Gbagbo has surrendered after a military assault on his residence in Abidjan and has been put under UN guard.

Forces of his UN-recognised successor, Alassane Ouattara, and French tanks advanced on his residence where he had been ensconced in a bunker.

Following the activities of hoodlums operating on Ohoror/Bomadi Road, Delta State, which had claimed several lives, a former militant group under the aegis of Egalesonoma, has constituted itself into a vigilante group to secure lives and property on the road.