There is palpable tension at the top echelon of the Nigerian judiciary as the investigative panel that was constituted by the National Judicial Council, NJC, with a view to ascertaining the veracity of allegations of corruption levelled against Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami, gets set to submit its final report.

THE apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned the threat by the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, that it would proceed on strike if Professor Barth Nnaji was appointed Minister of Power, saying it considered the threat misguided and brazenly unpatriotic.

British security agents have alerted British Prime Minister, David Cameron, that terrorist group, al-Qaeda was determined to make Nigeria a base for plotting terror attacks on the Western nations just as an explosion believed to have been carried out by Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday killed five persons including Mallam Mustafa Baale, a prominent leader of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) in the state and injuring 10 others at a bar close to a police barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

The group had on Saturday

Dangote Cement Plc has announced a significant reduction in the factory price of its product to N1,350 per bag.

While briefing cement distributors, Friday, the company’s Executive Director in charge of sales and marketing, Mr. Ekanem Etim, said the reduction was in line with the company’s declared policy to make cement affordable to Nigerians as it expands its local capacity in the country.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has charged the three tiers of governments to put in place incentives that will attract youths to agriculture to boost food production in the country.

Sanusi warns Muslims against joining issues with Christians

OVER 50 persons have been rendered homeless in Owanta Community, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, following a flood that swept through the town, weekend.

The Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has described the death of an illustrious daughter of the state, Lady of Songs, Chief Christy Essien-Igbokwe, as a big loss to the state and the nation, saying that her place would be difficult, if not impossible to fill.

TENSION engulfed the rank and file of the Nigeria Police Force, weekend, followinag stories making rounds that the police authorities may soon carry out massive transfer of officers and men from the southern part of the country to the northern states.

Brown Ebewele, a big name in Nigerian sports has described as “scandal” the flouting of rules over athletes’ legitimacy in the ongoing National Sports Festival and blamed the organisers, the National Sports Festival for this.