GROUP Managing Director/Chief Executive of GTBank, Mr. Tayo Aderinokun, aged 56, died, Tuesday, in London after protracted illness.

A total of 558.09 million shares valued at N1.80 billion were traded in 4,720 deals on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday.

BRF Football Academy at the weekend defeated Early Start Football Academy 3-1 in a match that climaxed activities of Shell Nigeria Eploration and Production Company organised 2011 Children’s Day celebration at the Campos Mini stadium, Lagos.

The Nigeria Cricket Federation have invited 23 players to camp ahead of the ICC African Premier T/20 Cricket League Division One billed for Uganda.

Former Super Eagles dependable defender, Uche Okechukwu has pleaded with the Nations football fans to be patient with the current Super Eagles squad, saying that the team needs time to fully mature.

Prices of tomato and pepper have risen in Dutse a survey conducted on Tuesday in Dutse and Shuarin markets in Jigawa revealed that a basket of tomato was being sold for N6, 500 against N400 last month.

Former Nigerian internationals Moses Ugbusien and Sunday Uti are in town to boost home-based athletes at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Golden League final billed for at the Warri Township Stadium this afternoon.

A rumour that spread across the length and breadth of Ibadan metropolis Tuesday that a bomb planted by unknown person could explode anytime resulted in a stampede at the Iwo Road interchange, the notorious place where members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state unleashed terror on some innocent people two weeks ago.

ANOTHER staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, was Tuesday evening, abducted by unknown gunmen along Ohore road, off the ever busy Effurun/ Sapele express road in Delta State.

The Police at Force headquarters have uncovered a transfer scam running into about N20million, whereby an inspector and four other officers collected sums ranging between N30, 000 and N50, 000 to fraudulently post officers out of or back to their former positions after they had been officially posted to other commands.

Respite came the way of the embattled former minister of works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, Tuesday, as he was granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja, after he had spent 35 days at the Kuje maximum prison.

FIVE unknown gunmen have kidnapped the 83-year old mother of the National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olusola Oke.

Madam Mariam Oke was abducted in her son’s country home in Igbokoda, in the oil rich Ilaje Council area of Ondo State.

Dr Terkula Suswam, the elder brother to Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue has described the PDP as a disciplined party.

Bauchi –  There was a tight security arrangement at the inauguration of the seventh Bauchi State House of Assembly on Tuesday in Bauchi. The officials and visitors at the venue were checked by armed mobile policemen, to prevent people from going into the complex with dangerous weapons. The presence of policemen and other security operatives […]

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has called on politicians to emulate the virtues of late Chief MKO Abiola, for his sacrifice towards realisation of Nigeria’s democracy .