The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved the Bank’s Urban Development Strategy, designed to transform African cities and towns into engines of economic growth and social development.

The management of NNPC has said there is sufficient Premium Motor Spirit and other fuels and dispelled fears of a planned increase in the prices of the products.

The incoming Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso administration will sustain the implementation of the Sharia legal system in Kano State, a party official said.

The NLC has commended President Goodluck Jonathan’s courage in sustaining INEC’s independence during the just-concluded April general elections.

The Ebonyi government will pay the N18, 000 minimum wage to its workers, Gov. Martin Elechi has assured the people.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has advised Nigerians to thank God for the peaceful conduct of the April general elections.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said reports quoting him in a section of the media which portrayed him as being insensitive to the death of some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in the state during the recent political riots that trailed the presidential election was done out of context.

Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Osama bin Laden, the long-time figurehead of the al Qaeda terrorist network, has been buried at sea after being killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan.

The killing of the world’s best-known terrorist may be a positive step in the world’s war on terror, but it won’t eliminate terrorism completely, an analyst said Sunday night.