Indications emerged yesterday that heads may roll among the top brass of the Nigeria Police, especially in the North-East, following their inability to prevent weekend’s bloody attacks that claimed over 100 lives and property worth hundreds of millions of naira.

Aliyu, who spoke while receiving traditional rulers who paid him Sallah homage in his private residence in Minna, yesterday, argued that there would have been no need for oil subsidy if all the refineries in the country were functional.

ABUJA-Senate has started meetings with major stakeholders in the oil industry towards ensuring the eventual passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, that was dumped by the last National Assembly.

NIGERIANS have more than enough reasons to panic. It should be more so when the issue is security and government is not about to do anything about securing the country. The assurances have gone bare and the attacks are becoming deadlier.

AS is the custom in parts of Nigeria where the book on a deceased person is not considered closed until what is called the ‘final’ or ‘second’ burial is done, victory at an election is not complete until it has been declared at the relevant election petition tribunal.

General Secretary of Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, Mr. Idowu Akinnehin, who last Wednesday, slumped at an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, has been confirmed dead at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos.

LAGOS -Young Journalists Forum, YJF, has condemned plan by Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy next year, saying the action by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led government “is criminal and a deliberate action to exacerbate the suffering of the Nigerian people.”

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is to review its decision on the withdrawal of the provisional clearance given to the former Director General of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Mr Ben Murray Bruce, following advice from some legal experts on the issue.

BUT for the recent ‘truce’ between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Nigeria would have yet witnessed another round of ASUU strike.

LAGOS -The Federal Government has been advised to use high-grade security surveillance cameras to tackle security challenges in the country, to enable security operatives monitor and respond to security situations.

LAGOS-Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, Tuesday, called on the three tiers of government to emulate the social security scheme for the elderly people in the 16 local government areas of Ekiti State by the government.

After Going through the list of players the Nigeria Football Federation invited for the Botswana and Zambia friendly matches Stephen Keshi wore a little long face.

LAGOS – Youths under the auspices of Nigerian Youth League, NYL, have blamed past and current leaders for the failed state of the nation, calling on the older generation to step aside for the youth, with a view to developing a new system.

A downpour in Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State, has displaced Mrs Anthonia Monkom, Permanent Secretary in the Department of Public Transportation, and hundreds of families.

After a hectic schedule at the ITU Telecoms World 2011, the Minister of Communications & Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, who also represented the President Goodluck Jonathan in some of the events, spared some time with the media to do a recap on her experience at the global event in Geneva.