Nigeria’s women sprinters swept the stakes yesterday at the All African Games here in Maputo.

Ahead of the court-ordered general meetings for the five rescued banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, shareholders have expressed willingness to approve their acquisition deals with other banks to meet up the September 30 deadline by the apex bank for their recapitalisation.

THE headline of an ordinarily innocuous story filed by Daily Sun’s correspondent, Christopher Oji, was “Lawyer Apologises for Lying Against CP”(Daily Sun, Friday September 2, 2011).

The All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) has denounced calls for the imposition of emergency rule in some parts of the country particularly Borno and Plateau states over the high level of insecurity in the areas, saying such calls are out of tune with rule of law.

DISSATISFIED with its unchallenged bombing activities in the North, Boko Haram has threatened to extend the reign of terror to southern parts of the country.

Kano- Government activities in Kano State were paralysed Monday following an indefinite strike embarked upon by workers over the payment of the new minimum wage.

African countries at the 61st session of the World Health Organisation (WHO)Regional Committee for Africa last week stalled approval of a document for $100 million (N15.2 billion) African Public Health Emergency Fund aimed at helping African countries deal with public health emergencies when the need arises.

Civil War is recognised as such because it always produces during its course more than one government while the existing but threatened state protects the sitting but also embattled government.

IBADAN- Leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have resolved to commence a one-week warning strike from 26 September, to force government to honour a pact it reached with the union.

LAGOS- Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, to relinquish his position, pending investigation into allegations levelled at him.