The State Security Service (SSS), yesterday paraded the man who claimed to be the spokesperson of the deadly Boke Haram sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (A.K.A Usman Al-Zawahiri) with the suspect alleging that a serving Senator and an Ambassador were financiers of Boko Haram activities.

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory was yesterday told how former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Usman Nafada, unilaterally increased allowances of members from N17 million per quarter to N42 million, amounting to N60.480 billion annually.

FOUR people were, Sunday night, killed at Razat village in the Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, throwing the area into fresh anxiety after months of relative calm.

Commercial banks in Bauchi State are now panicking following alleged reports that members of the Boko Haram sect planned to bomb the financial houses in the state to protest the alleged freezing of the accounts of their late founder, Mohammed Yusuf, by the Federal Government.

The Joint Security Information Managers Committee set up in the wake of the Boko Haram terrorist attacks and other security challenges in the country, Monday, confirmed that all three suicide bombers who targeted the headquarters of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri on November 4, 2011, were killed by the bombs they carried.

Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Governor Raji Fashola to justify the proposed N485.2 bilion budget for next year.

A presidential aspirant in last April’s general election, Professor Pat Utomi, has decried Federal Government’s plans to remove subsidy on petroleum products.

Left to the Osita Chidoka-led Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) the number plates and driver’s licences currently in use would be phased out come 2012. Already, the minds of Nigerians are being prepared by officials of the Commission each time they have the opportunity to speak to the public, especially through the media.

President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday called on Northern elite to take the bull by the horns in solving the problem ofthe Boko Haram sect which is associated with the numerous bombings in the country.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday, accused British Airways, BA, of undermining constituted authority in the country, even as it said it would be waiting for the airline to prove its innocence in court over allegations of price fixing and unfair fare regime slammed on Nigerian travellers on the London route.

COSCHARIS Motors, representatives of BMW in Nigeria has finally unveiled the new BMW X3 into the market. The official unveiling which was held in Abuja recently was attended by BMW customers who thumbed up for the new X3 for its technological advancements.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has requested for the provision of N315 million naira to execute its programmes for 2012.

ABEOKUTA – A Police Corporal, identified as Taoheed Boladale, has allegedly shot and killed his superior officer, Inspector Ndidi Agbole at a check point in Ejirin road, Ijebu Ode local government Area Council of Ogun State.

THE Founder/President, Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF), Dr Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, says Nigeria spends N1 trillion yearly on agricultural commodities.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, devalued the nation’s currency from N150 to N160 to the dollar. In devaluing the currency, the CBN moved the band it wants the naira to trade in to between N150 and N160 to the U.S. dollar, compared with N145-N155 to the dollar it sold previously, due to the prolonged weakness of the naira and high demand of the dollar. At the official market, the naira has always sold above the CBN’s upper band.