Norway’s intelligence chief said Wednesday there was no evidence the self-confessed author of the attacks that killed 76 people had links to other cells, as a bomb scare underlined the country’s anxiety.

The Plateau State Government has said the barring of females from wearing trousers at the state secretariat and other government offices was part of the campaign against indecent dressing.

Anambra State government has denied any relationship with an Islamic bank as claimed by governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, while defending the proposed Islamic bank financial policy before members of the House of Representatives last Thursday.

The Federal Government has opened talks with the World Bank, African Development Bank and U.K’s Department for International Development, DFID, to curb youth unemployment.

BARELY 48 hours after the Delta State Governorship Re-run Petition Tribunal, Asaba, dismissed the petition by Chief Great Ogboru, the governorship candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, challenging Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s victory at the re-run poll, the two men will return to the tribunal, today.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has requested Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and other Peoples Democratic Party, PDP principal officers in the House of Representatives to resign from office in two years to allow the rectification of the party’s zoning policy truncated by the present set of officers.

INDICATION emerged yesterday that the Federal Government has jettisoned the agreement reached with organised labour that all levels of workers, including the non-core civil servants would benefit from the N18,000 new minimum wage.

Vanguard can authoritatively reveal that barring last minute changes, Governor Rauf Aregbesola will present the list of his cabinet members to the State House of Assembly tomorrow.

The embattled former Minister of Works, Dr Hassan Lawal, yesterday, begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to quash two separate criminal charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

First Bank of Nigeria, FBN, Plc, has recorded a 23.33 per cent growth in profit after tax in its half year 2011 financial performance.