The Kaduna State Government has alerted residents living along river banks of impending flood disasters predicted by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET).

Mr Patrick Udomfang, PDP National Director of Legal, Intelligence and Security, says the party has substantial evidence to defeat CPC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Election Tribunal.

The bombers blew themselves up in Shabqadar at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped but front-line force in the battle against al-Qaida and allied Islamist groups like the Pakistani Taliban close to the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan’s security forces, it has received U.S. funding to try to sharpen its skills.

The Lagos State Government said on Thursday that it approved 152 applications for the adoption of children of Lagos origin in 11 European countries between 2007 and this year.

Passengers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Friday lamented over the increase in fares by airline operators.

Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank Managing Director and Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, says getting the Paris club to cancel the country’s debt gave her grey hair.

EBONYI State High Court, yesterday, ordered two constables, Uchenna Onwe, Obinna Igwe and an Inspector, Alex Elekwachi, of the State Police Command to pay N320,000 as damages to one Mr. Samuel Egbunne, a landlord, for their role in his unlawful arrest, assault and detention in Abakaliki.

THE Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has restored the accreditation of the Oba Okunade Sijuade College of Health Sciences of the Igbinedion University, Okada, a year after the council suspended the institution from running the programme.

Anxiety and confusion reigned at the Manjel Hotel, Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday, when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed to issue Certificate of Return to Hon. Bassey Eko Ewah, representing Abi/Yakuur Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.

A legal practitioner, Mr. Oluwole Aluko has instituted an action against President Goodluck Jonathan and Attorney-General of the Federation, Barrister Mohammed Adoke(SAN) in a Federal High Court over the establishment of the National Youth Service Corps.

THE South-West caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed Alhaji Muraina Ajibola as the Speaker-nominee of the House of Representatives.

BARELY 24 hours after he was remanded at the Kuje Maximum Prisons, embattled former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Muhammed Lawal, yesterday, instructed his team of lawyers to beg trial Justice Bilkisu Aliyu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, to release him on bail pending the hearing and determination of the substantive criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, picked holes in President Goodluck Jonathan’s raising of a 22-man panel to probe the post-presidential polls mayhem that claimed many lives and property in some northern parts of the country.

Last week, I asked readers to react on the cheating in age grade competitions as was highlighted by ex international Adokiye Amiesimaka in his comment in Vanguard two weeks ago.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, described as an insult what it described as a “paltry” sum of N5 million offer by President Goodluck Jonathan for youth corps members who were killed in some northern states of the federation, following the announcement of result of April 16 presidential election