Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez has agreed a new five-year contract with the English champions, the player’s agent was quoted by several newspapers as saying here Thursday.

IBADAN-Justice Moshood Abbass hearing the case of the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and his former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Senator Hosea Agboola and a contractor, Mr. Femi Babalola being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on alleged misappropriation of funds totaling N25 billion has alleged attempt by some unnamed people to influence his decision.

The proposed removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan has divided the Senate. The sharp division occurred yesterday on the floor of the Senate even as they all resolved to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the Ministry of Finance for allegedly overshooting oil subsidy funds from N240 billion appropriated in the 2011 budget by the National Assembly to N1.2 trillion

The Nigeria Football Federation will today sit to decide on the fate of embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia and his entire technical crew. The meeting has caught the interest of football fans across the country who are still bitter over the non-qualification of the national team for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

WHEN Justice MudasiruOniyangi (who presides over an Abuja Federal High Court) adjourned the case sine die, little did he know that eyes were watching.

LIKE most Nigerian followers of the beautiful game, I was very sad and angry at the way our national team exited from qualification for the 2012 African Cup of Nations.

From far away India came the news, on September 6, 2011 that the first Speaker of the House of Representatives under our presidential system of government, Barrister Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, had passed on. He had been sick and was flown there for treatment, but unfortunately, he could not survive.

OSTENSIBLY jolted by the reality of his arraignment, the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, yesterday, arrived High Court 4 around 9;10 am and headed straight to the toilet within the court premises.

The Court of Appeal, yesterday, adjourned till November 23, for hearing in the appeal by the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, Lagos, to entertain the application by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s, EFCC, application seizing his property and freeze his accounts.

Immediate past governor of Lagos State and National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, condemned the Federal Government for the poor state of federal roads across the country.

Outrage, yesterday, greeted the arrest and detention of the four senior editors of The Nation Newspapers.
In unanimity, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Osun State Government, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), who spoke before some of the senior journalists were released, decried the dictatorial, illegal and high-handed manner the senior journalists and non-journalist employees of The Nation newspapers were arrested and being maltreated and called for their immediate release.

FIVE arrested journalists and the Chief Security Officer, CSO, of The Nation newspapers, who were picked up on Tuesday by Force CID Headquarters, Lagos and Abuja, were released yesterday night.

NON-INDIGENES disengaged by Abia State Government from its work force are protesting the contents of the letters being issued to them for delivery to their home governments for purposes of being re-absorbed.

Executive Director of CLO, Mr Ibuchukwu Ezike, said the arrests showed that the country’s security agencies live in the past and did not work in consonance with the laws of the country.

WE may choose to ignore history but history, in its crushing implacability, will never ignore us. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was perhaps one person who saw tomorrow on behalf of Nigeria.