A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has restrained Finbank Plc and First City Monument Bank, FCMB,from taking further steps on a purported Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for business combinations recently signed between the two banks.

PIQUED by the soaring prices of cement in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, summoned the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and other cement manufacturers with a directive to crash the prices of the product within 30 days period or face the wrath of the government.

The Forum for Purposeful Governance and Democratic Ethos, FPGDE, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for compensating families of the 10 slain National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members.

The defeat of the Super Falcons by Ghana over the weekend has lowered the medal estimation of the National Sports Commission at the forthcoming All Africa Games in Mozambique in September.

Nigeria coach, Samson Siasia, has said that his team were far from prepared to defend the WAFU Nations Cup.

After a hectic international schedule which saw some of the players travel out of the country for a month, Nigeria’s domestic cricket scene will come alive this weekend with two finals of some of the season’s competitions.

Retired police officers from the South-East and South-South geo-political zones of the country have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to look into the lingering issue of non-payment of pensions to those who were not yet 10 years in service when the war ended in 1970.

As President Goodluck Jonathan continues to grapple with intense lobbying to consider some personalities in the South-Eastern part of the country for the position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Abia Citizens Forum has cautioned him to tread carefully.

Imo State governor-elect, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, has been urged to fulfil his campaign promises, especially his free education policy, beginning from his May 29 swearing-in date.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is to deploy 3,300 bio-metric machines to 2,872 centres, to tackle examination malpractices during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), slated for June.