The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday said the cashless economy policy would not lead to job losses in banks.

President Goodluck Jonathan left for France on Wednesday for a meeting to attract foreign investment into the oil-rich but corruption-ridden country, his office said.

Former England captain David Beckham has kickstarted talks to join French league leaders Paris St Germain, according to the club’s sporting director Leonardo

Nigeria’s economy in spite of its current debt to GDP ratio of 20 per cent will grow by more than 7 per cent in 2012, Dr Dalhatu Tafida, has said

Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Ikeja High Court, Thursday, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to pay Nigerian comedy actor, Babatunde Omidina, commonly called Baba Suwe, N25 million as compensation for unlawful detention and breach of right.

AS time approaches for Edo governorship election slated for the second quarter of next year, intrigues and scheming have intensified, especially in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State that lost out to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the Appeal Court after the 2007 general election. Before that election, PDP in Edo State was a united family with Chief Tony Anenih as the leader.

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded two secondary school students over an alleged attempt to rape a school girl.

Senators have asked the Federal Government to decentralise the Nigeria Police to include community and state police.

FIVE weeks to the end of the year, President Goodluck Jonathan is seeking a virement of N98,444,231,972 in the 2011 Appropriation, just as strong indications emerged yesterday that National Assembly may extend the life span of the budget beyond December 31.

Badagry residents of Oremeji in Aradagun near Badagry, Lagos, were on Sunday thrown into shock when a man presumed dead suddenly resurrected after three days in the mortuary.

FOR Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), this is like second coming having served as Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the period former anti-corruption czar, Nuhu Ribadu was spirited away on course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, prior to the appointment of Mrs. Farida Waziri.

NIGERIANS, yesterday, hailed President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, saying it was long overdue.

The ancient city of Kano was thrown into shock yesterday when the police paraded three high profile cases of rape that involves an 80-year-old, Shuaibu Jibrin of Dakata quarters in the state capital. Jibrin was accused of raping a four-year girl.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, said the arrest of Senator Ali Ndume in connection with the Boko Haram saga was a welcome development, noting that the country had started solving the problem.