TWO tribunals have been confirmed to sit in Abia State to hear petitions from political parties and their candidates who participated in the just concluded 2011 general elections.

– Emotion ran high yesterday at the Oduduwa, Ikeja office of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, after a man gave a startling revelation of how he hacked his sister to death.

Pakistan President Ali Zardari on Tuesday said his security forces were left out of a U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden.

The remains of the two slain National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, members who were indigenes of Osun State killed in Buachi State were yesterday interred in their hometown; Gbongan, headquarters of Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun State amidst deep sorrow and gnashing of teeth

MANY Nigerians may not know about the National Automotive Council of Nigeria, NAC, though the organisation is 18 years old. Its mandate is to harness resources to enhance local manufacturing of vehicles in Nigeria.

The embattled former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, of frustrating him in his bid to put up a strong defence in the criminal charge filed against him by the anti-graft agency.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State yesterday condoled with South-South Leader, Chief E. K. Clark, and the Adowei family in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, over the killing of their son, Mr. Elliot Adowei, who was a serving Corps member in Bauchi State, during the post election violence.

ANOTHER crisis is brewing in the South-West geo-political zone of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after its poor outing in the last elections as leaders of the party in the region plans to centralize the appointments due to it.

Despite winning the Africa Youth Championship, the Flying Eagles of Nigeria will undergo major restructuring ahead of the 2011 World Youth Championship in Columbia.

The battle for the presidency of the seventh Senate is shifting into a higher gear with members of the outgoing sixth Senate resuming their final days of sitting today.