rsenal boss Arsene Wenger on Thursday demanded Barcelona players stop making public comments about Gunners captain Cesc Fabregas wanting to leave for the Nou Camp

Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, said yesterday there would be structural changes in the ministry to ensure the success of the transformation agenda of the government, especially with regards to economic growth.

“I have never seen anything remotely like this before” –Lt. Amelia Huffman, Minneapolis Police Dept.
“There was a very eerie silence right after the collapse. It was 5 to 10 minutes before I heard any sirens…” –Joe Costello
“I got out of my car and the first thing I heard was [were] the kids screaming on the bus. I called 911. I didn’t really know what else I could do.” –Flip Saunders

France World Cup-winner Patrick Vieira has retired as a player to take up a new role of football development executive at current club Manchester City, the English Premier League side said Thursday.

Despite the intervention of the House of Representatives in the dispute between the organised labour and Federal Government over the non-implementation of the minimum wage law, there is no silver lining yet in the horizon over the impending general strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).

The Muslim Congress (TMC) has joined other sister Islamic organisations, civil societies and advocates of Non-interest/Islamic Banking in Nigeria while also condemning the campaign against the planned introduction of it by some Christian groups.

EVERYBODY is talking about security. The concerns appear to end with the talks. As bombs go off as routine in Maiduguri, Bauchi, Kaduna, Abuja and other targets that the criminals may choose, too much attention is paid to chasing the criminals after the crime. Why the sudden rise in insecurity? What can be done? Is anyone noticing that while all the attention is on the bomb spots, kidnappers are returning? Will Nigerians ever feel safe again? What are the causes of insecurity? Where are the police and government? On a wet Wednesday morning with intimidating traffic jams on the abandoned Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, our panellists weathered the storm to x-ray the challenges and proffer solutions. The challenges are not new, though new initiatives are required to tackle them. You will find them here…

Apart from security concerns expressed by most residents of Kaduna state, the slow pace of governance is another major source of worry.

For example, since Governor Patrick Yakowa dissolved the Local Government Councils (LGCs) in February, he was only able to inaugurate Caretaker Committees last Monday. That is to say, for almost five months, the 23 LGCs of the state were only manned by the Secretaries of the Councils, who have no executive powers to carry out any developmental projects.

Senator Muniru Muse, who represented Lagos Central Senatorial District of Lagos State between 2003 to 2011 spoke to reporters at a gathering of South_West Senators Forum in Lagos recently on the rising wave of insecurity in the country, why states should not get additional revenue from the federation account and he did not participate in the campaigns of his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) after he was denied return ticket for Lagos Central, which the party hierarchy gave to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of former Lagos State Governor and ACN National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Just about when his administration was being criticised for a slow start, Governor Ibrahim Dakwambo now seems to have burst out from starting line. Penultimate Tuesday, Dakwambo was the cynosure of all eyes as virtually all streams of society converged in the State capital to receive the ingredients of the new administration’s working plans.