A United States of America cable released by Wikileaks has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo mounted pressure on the former Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais (rtd) and other Supreme Court Justices over the 2003 presidential petition brought by General Muhammudu Buhari (rtd.)

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commi-ssion, EFCC, yesterday, raided the Lagos State Assembly Complex for the second time in two days.

Another United States cable released by Wikileaks yesterday revealed that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido, believed that late President Umaru Yar’Adua did not have a cabinet but “just a bunch of politicians trying to survive politically without any commitment to government”

Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $32.3 billion by Sept. 2, the same level they were on June 24, and down from a six-month high in August. Nigeria’s foreign reserves peaked at $35.9 billion on Aug 8, its highest in six month, but fell to $32.92 billion at the close of last month.

AFTER weeks of recess in the verbal war between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Military President Ibrahim Babangida, the battle appeared to have resumed yesterday with General Babangida insisting that General Obasanjo’s administration was characterized by high level squandering of the nation’s money.

OVER 1000 students from the oil producing communities in Ondo State, yesterday stormed the head office of the State Oil Areas Producing Development Commission, OSOPADEC, to protest the non-payment of their 2009/2010 bursary.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, said yesterday that the speedy disbandment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal constituted by Justice Ayo Salami may have exposed the real reason why he (Justice Salami) was removed as the President of the Court of Appeal, PCA.

Nigerian activist, Mr. Sunny Ofehe, standing trial in The Netherlands for allegedly plotting to blow up oil pipelines belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in Nigeria, has told a Rotterdam Court, that he was not a terrorist and had never been involved in terrorist acts in his life.

APPARENTLY not happy with the growing rate of terrorism in the country, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Sunday took the current spate of insecurity to God, praying that God should expose all enemies of the country and destroy them for peace to reign in Nigeria.

BENINCITY—THE Edo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, tuesday, raised alarm over the spate of road accidents across the country, warning that if the situation does not change, the nation may loss 26 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product by 2013.