A Lagos lawmaker, Mr. Sakiru Osinowo, Thursday, explained how he narrowly escaped assassination attempt on his life, calling on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad arm of the Nigeria Police to hasten investigation into the matter.

The planned resuscitation of the national identity card suffered another set back ,Thursday, as the House of Representatives asked the Federal Government to discontinue its execution, saying the N30 billion earmarked for it was not captured in the budget.

MINISTER of Works, Mr. Mike Onolemenme, Thursday, in Benin, Edo State, appeared before the election petitions tribunal sitting in the state over his alleged involvement in the last State and National Assembly Elections in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of the state.

Governors of the 36 states of the federation, Thursday, at the National Economic Council, NEC, meeting, backed the recent move by President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the controversial subsidy on petroleum products.

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, PDP, Nasarawa West, said, Thursday, that if the Federal Government must achieve its target of becoming one of the top 20 economies of the world by the year 2020, there was the urgent need to pay serious attention to the development of solid minerals.

THE crisis in Delta Steel Company, DSC, Delta State, took a new dimension, Thursday, as more top Indian officials of the company were held hostage by the striking Indian workers on hunger strike over salaries and pay off.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is making plans to secure a $1.5 billion, five-year amortising restructuring syndicated loan from international lenders, bankers close to the deal revealed.

A Nigerian woman who was earlier selected as a juror in the trial of a 24-year- old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, for allegedly attempting to blow up a North-West Airline in Detriot on December 25, 2009, has been dropped.

Personnel of Nigerian Navy have arrested 43 suspects alleged to be behind illegal oil bunkering on the Bonny waterways. While parading the suspects before newsmen, Commander of the Forward Ope-ration Base, FOB of the Navy in Bonny, Navy Captain Tanko Yakubu, said they were arrested aboard three vessels with 3.5 million litres of crude.

IF you were around in 1990 when the professional football league began, you will be ashamed about what is happening. The extent of amateurism that the league has attained since then has negated almost every reason for beginning the league.