THE plethora of allegations of wrong doing against the outgoing Governor of Ogun State Otunba Olugbenga Daniel by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state continued Thursday with the party accusing him of unrepentantly carting away appliances and amenities from both the Government House and his office in the wake of the May 29 handover date.

A recording purported to have been made by Osama Bin Laden shortly before he died has been released by al-Qaeda.
In the message, he praises the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and speaks of a “rare historic opportunity” for Muslims to rise up.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said on Wednesday that it had begun the verification and review of its biometric database for lawyers in the country.

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has launched a 5-year $500 million issue under its $2 billion Global Medium Term Note Program, setting yet another ground breaking moment in the history of the Nigerian financial industry as it is the first benchmark size, non-sovereign offering out of Nigeria

A gang of suspected Islamists raided a police station in north-eastern Nigeria and were locked in an hour-long gun battle with police overnight, a regional police chief said on Thursday.

A Benue High Court, Wednesday, issued a warrant for the arrest of a reporter, who allegedly defamed Gov. Gabriel Suswam in November 2009.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will attend the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara’s of Côte d’Ivoire on Saturday, the UN announced on Wednesday.

– The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will co-operate with litigants on forensic examination of electoral materials, its Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said.

IF a word captures the central content of the responses I got to my first piece last week, it would be “vitriol”. Not that I was surprised; but the depth of anger against me, for daring to deconstruct the prevalent perspective about Northern Nigeria, within media, intellectual and even popular levels, in Southern Nigeria, was simply amazing!

The embattled managing director,of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as he faces sexual assault charges in New York.

A 33-year-old man was at the early hours of yesterday, stabbed to death while attempting to separate two persons from fighting in Morogbo area of Lagos.

A three-day boxing championships to help boxers in the South-South zone prepare adequately for the 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt will begin on Thursday in Calabar.

Following the lingering scarcity of kerosene (DPK) across the country which has led to high prices of the product, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Austen Oniwon to urgently find a lasting solution to the problem even as he directed that anybody or group found to be responsible for this hardship on Nigerians should be immediately sanctioned.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysus Katsina-Alu, Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms Arunma Oteh and the Managing Partner of PUNUKA Attorney & Solicitors law firm, Chief Anthony Idigbe, SAN, yesterday, called for a new regulatory frame work to regulate the nation’s financial sector.

CEMENT has been expensive for more than three years. The recent interests in the cost of cement is just the same type of fleeting attention that enduring challenges receive from our leaders. Distributors, bad roads, high cost of electricity, taxes, multiple levies, insufficient supply, and panic buying are the combined causes of persistent high price of cement.