ABUJA-All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, has joined the swelling clan of groups asking the Federal Government to shelve its planned removal of oil subsidy saying it will spell doom for the ordninary man in the country.

Sapele-Police in Edo State have arrested a pastor who allegedly raped a 12-year-old choir member of his church at Afuda in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of the state.

IN a remarkable commitment to the sustenance of its zoning and rotational arrangement, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a bid to deepen the roots of democracy in the country and also maintain its vast electoral fortune has zoned the position of its National Chairman to the North East geo-political zone of the federation.

ABUJA-FORMER Managing Director of Niger Delta Develop-ment Commission, NDDC, Chief Timi Alaibe, Tuesday, submitted his expression of interest and nomination forms for Bayelsa governorship ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the primaries, with a vow that getting the waiver was his entitlement as a founding member of the party.

COMMERCIAL activities at the popular Iyana-Ipaja, under Alimosho Local Council Development Area of Lagos State were disrupted, Monday, following the screeching of tyres of a mini bus, with the bus driver jumping out almost immediately.

As prelude to the launch of its replacement satellite, NigComSat 1R, in December, Nigeria’s premier communications satellite company, NIGCOMSAT will hold a series of roadshows and interactive sessions with stakeholders in Lagos.

CITIZEN Chinaza Okoli wrote what he entitled an “Open Letter to Governor Peter Obi” on the Tuesday, October 11, 2011 issue of the DAILY SUN.

IT’S all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million prize placed on his head- dead or alive.

Bauchi-The Sayawa council of Elders and traditional rulers in Bauchi, have dragged the state government to court over the citing of the headquarters of the Sawaya chiefdom at Martin Giji, instead of Tafawa Balewa, their ancestral home.

JALINGO-Taraba State Governor, Dan Suntai Tuesday lamented threat of flood which had ravaged federal government bridges and highways in Taraba, saying however that the state has awarded N19.18 billion contract to repair federal roads in the area.

First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Plc has recorded a growth of 73 per cent in its Group’s Profit After Tax (PAT) for the un-audited nine months result ended September 30, 2011 released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) .

SOME stakeholders have expressed optimism that the acquisition of Intercontinental Bank by Access Bank would reposition Access Bank and lead to improved earnings.

THE Association of Professional Party Planners and Event Managers of Nigeria, APPOEMN, has condemned the gradual emergence of piracy and copy right violations in the events management industry.

A NEWSPAPER vendor has been arrested for allegedly attempting to kidnap a set of twins in Ikorodu area of Lagos. The vendor, identified as Victor Joshua until his arrest, supplied newspapers to customers in the area.

Federal government has been called upon to speedily sign into law the disability bill as an instrument that can improve welfare of the diabled in the country.