Libyan rebels on Sunday fought their way into Tripoli, where music played in the streets as residents celebrated, but leader Moamer Kadhafi refused to surrender even as NATO said his regime is crumbling.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State weekend said his administration would find lasting solution to the perennial communal crises in the state.

President Jonathan has approved the sack of embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami.

The Federal Government has announced a new target of 5000 Megawatts (Mw) for national electric power generation by December 2011, just as it lamented that power plants in the country had not experienced any form of overhauling in the last 40 years.

ACTION Congress of Nigeria, ACN, candidate for the Ika Federal Constituency in the April elections, Dr. Isioma Okobah, has tasked the National Assembly on legislation that would devolve powers and funds to states and local governments, and to focus on legislation that will strengthen and deepen democracy in the country.

It was the end of the road for a seven-man robbery gang in Shomolu area of Lagos, Sunday, after five of its suspected members were shot dead during a gun duel with the Police.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be freed this week, as prosecutors reportedly prepared to dismiss explosive charges that the once-powerful French politician tried to rape a hotel maid.

AS part of efforts to improve on the ongoing infrastructural renewal and effectively implement the N18,000 minimum wage, the Lagos State government is planning to re-order sectoral allocation in 2012 budget in view of the current economic crunch.

Libya’s defected ex-prime minister Abdessalam Jalloud said Sunday he believed it was too late for his former ally Moamer Kadhafi to strike a deal to leave power and he would likely be killed.

Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o’s mega-money move from Inter Milan to big-spending Russian Premiership side Anzhi Makhachkala is likely to be completed on Monday, Russian media reported.

Two sisters on Saturday evening died in a flood following a downpour in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo .

Kerosene scarcity still persists in Jos, the Plateau State capital, weeks after the Federal Government’s promise to make the product available to consumers at the approved pump price of N50 per litre.

The White House predicted Sunday that Moamer Kadhafi’s days as leader of Libya were numbered, as rebel forces fired the opening shots in a battle for Tripoli.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a Kenya-based American investor to inspect about 30,000 hectares of marshy land in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State for possible commercial rice cultivation.

Nigeria is vulnerable to food crisis like any other country in the world, Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an agency of the UN, has warned.