Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has directed employers of corps members to provide accommodation for them or risk being declared “unfriendly to the scheme”.

AS a teacher and research writer, I strongly believe in superior arguments backed with facts, stripped of emotion and sentiment. I am not used to writing frivolities or doing hatchet jobs for people. Before I write on any issue, be it local, national or international, I always get my facts right to avoid libel, defamation of character and being unprofessional.

Kwara State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Governorship candidate in the April 2011 election, Mohammed Belgore, SAN, has condemned attack by gunmen on Justice Oluwatoyin Muhammed of the State Sharia Court of Appeal, and urged security agencies to bring the perpetrators to book.

In its bid to reduce crime rate in the state, the Bauchi State Government yesterday said it would henceforth treat acts of Sara-Suka (thuggry) and burgling of houses and shops as acts of robbery.

The Confederation of African Football is ready to ensure a rapid development of Nigerian coaches, a member of the body’s Technical Committee, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, said on Saturday in Abuja.

Former Governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, who was last week declared wanted, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged fraud of N52 billion, surrendered himself, early Monday morning, to the commission, at its headquarters, in Abuja.

The legal battle between some shareholders of Union Bank Plc, Finbank Plc, Intercontinental Bank Plc, Afribank Plc and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, over the take-over of their banks and in some cases, sale of their banks to other banks even when there are pending cases in court challenging the propriety of the take-over of the banks will start from tomorrow at the Court of Appeal, Lagos.

Kodjo AS Nigerians continue to sulk over the lame and stupid play of the Eagles that saw them eliminated from the Nations Cup and with many calling on Coach Samson Siasia to throw in the towel, former NFA Chairman, Anthony Kodjo Williams said that Siasia should not be made the scapegoat.

Organised labour, weekend, gave conditions to government before embarking on total removal of subsidy on petroleum products.

Aggrieved shareholders of Spring Bank,one of the nationalised banks, Messrs Dapo Adeyemi-Bajo, Emmanuel Olayinka Sogelola, Mrs Regina Udomesiet, Noah Ekanem, Promise Iwezor, have sued the Central Bank of Nigeria for taking over three of the eight rescued banks in the country.