Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, bound to a stretcher and caged, appeared in court on Monday before the judge announced a three-week adjournment and an end to live television broadcasts.

Ten people were killed in two separate overnight attacks outside the volatile Nigerian city of Jos, a local official said, leading angry residents to block roads to the area on Monday.

Privatisation was a cardinal policy of the neo-liberal reforms advocated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for ailing third world economies in the 1980s.

In apparent resolve to tackle problems facing the institution, proprietor of Bingham University, Karu, The Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, weekend constituted a 19-member visitation panel to evaluate achievements and challenges being faced by the university since its take off.

Nigerian police said they killed a “would-be suicide bomber” seeking to drive an explosives-laden car into state police headquarters in the violence-torn city of Maiduguri on Monday.

Nigeria and Chelsea footballer John Obi Mikel pleaded Monday for his father’s kidnappers to free him, begging: “Please just let him go”.

The 24-year-old midfielder said he had always tried to serve his country and now needed his fellow Nigerians to help him secure his father’s release.

Former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak has returned to court in Cairo on Monday to face charges of killing protesters.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, weekend, said his government was not elected to serve the interest of workers alone but, the entire citizens of the state.

Spanish international Cesc Fabregas on Monday arrived at the Nou Camp to begin his Barcelona medical ahead of finalising his move from English Premier League side Arsenal.

Ahead of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s resumption as Finance Minister this week, government officials and members of the organised private sector are bracing up for the tough fiscal policy and macro-economic reforms that would guide the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The consolidation in the Nigerian banking sector is likely to shift to the telecommunication industry in the next 12 months.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, a non governmental organisation has urged Nigerians to send messages to President Goodluck Jonathan asking him to implement judgement of the ECOWAS Court directing the government to provide free, quality, and compulsory basic education to every Nigerian child.

IRATE youths at Governor Peter Obi’s home town, Agulu, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, burnt down the police post in the town following the killing of a middle–aged man by a policeman at a check-point.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said world markets have entered a “new danger zone,” noting that investors have lost confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries. This came even as bankers in the country, weekend, said outright liquidation of BankPHB, Afribank and Spring Bank by Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, would have ruined the nation’s economy.

Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha has said the legislature will play an effective oversight function to monitor the restoration of the devastated environment of Ogoni land and other communities affected by oil spills in the Niger Delta.