Videos have emerged purporting to show members of a Nigerian Islamist sect preparing for suicide attacks, including a young man said to be responsible for last month’s bombing of UN headquarters.

The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has concluded arrangements to install prepaid meters for its customers in Nyanya, Karu, Mararaba and Masaka neighbourhoods .

The telephone at my New Rochelle, New York residence rang one afternoon in late September 1990. The familiar voice at the other end simply said, “Joe, I dey your town, o!” “Gus”, I answered, a bit surprised as I had not had prior intimation of his visit. “Welcome,” I said. “How now?” “We dey!” He replied. “Shey you go come house?” I quickly followed. “How I go come New York and no come your house?,” He responded. “How long you dey town for?” “Only a few days,” he answered. “Okay. We go arrange. Where you dey stay?” “For Helmsley Palace”. “Welcome,” I repeated, “I go come see you.”

Babakura Fugu , the representative of Mohammed Yusuf’s family that received former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Thursday, has been killed.

What could have been a reign of terror on residents of Abuja by a gang of dare-devil armed robbers brandishing four AK 47 military assault rifles, one SMG rifle, and several bundles of poisonous bows and arrows, was, at the weekend, averted when soldiers attached to the 177 Guards Battalion of the Guards Brigade intercepted a Volkswagen Golf salon car carrying the weapons to the FCT from Nasarawa State.

SenatOR Florence Ita-Giwa has described as false the report credited to WikiLeaks that she was one of those alleged to have embezzled or misappropriated Nigeria’s resources.

It was a desperate move! Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, former President and Commander-in-Chief, knows an opportunity when he sees one. Just smarting from the well-rounded criticism that greeted his misplaced enthusiasm on the issue of zoning, a matter which saw his party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, kissing the dust of disapproval brought about by members of the House of Representatives, Obasanjo, indeed, sat back to re-assess the basis of his sense of statesmanship and importance. This, especially at a time when he appeared to be burning bridges of national relevance in a nation of competing interests.

The governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, wants the separation of the Federation Account from the Federal Government’s account as is the case under a federal system of government.

Following a violent clash by warring members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Isolo, Lagos State government has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the state chapter of the union to resolve the differences between its members or risk being banned.

Amid lingering tension in Ogbunka and Owerrezuka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, the scene of recent communal clash which saw neighbours turning foes, Senator Andy Uba (Anambra South), at the weekend, visited the communities to sue for peace.

Reverend Simeon Okah says corruption has continued to thrive in Nigeria because of poor enforcement of relevant laws.

Memories of the late Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB)and Patron of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Tayo Aderinokun who transited to another life last June, were brought back last Saturday at the Aina Onabolu Hall of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.

As the convoy of cars from Bodo town conveying journalists veered into the road leading to Goi community, the air became fetid. The air was so offensive that two members of the entourage made to throw up. The air had been poisoned by the smell of crude oil that had enveloped the river serving the five communities of Goi.

The All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, has warned the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that it may soon lose integrity and respect of the nation’s citizens if it continues to disregard trust as an important component of the social contract between government and the people.

The death of 29-year-old Jonathan, a graduate of Mass Communication from one the nation’s universities will forever remain in the minds of his parents. Jonathan, had bid farewell to his mother that fateful morning after he had boarded a commercial bus from Owerri to Lagos but little did he know it would be the last time he would talk to her.