Sacked Super Eagles Coach Sampson Siasia has dragged the Board of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to an Abuja High Court for breaching the terms of his employment contract.

Worried by the seeming lack of accountability in the disbursement of intervention funds by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to some troubled sectors in the nation’s economy, the House of Representatives, yesterday, directed its committee on Banking and Currency to investigate the source of funding as well as disbursement by the apex bank of funds to the banking an aviation sectors.

TOO much is being done to promote the nothingness that stands for legislations. Sometimes we wonder if we need legislators in the first place. Neither the executive nor the judiciary is doing better.

FOR sure, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is an extraordinary Nigerian. He is the richest African in recorded modern history. Just about three years ago, he was estimated by Forbes (first time a Nigerian was making it to the charmed circle of 400 richest men in the world) as worth a little over US$3 billion. Dangote disputed the figure, stressing that he was worth over five billion.

Abuja- National Chairman of All Nigerian Peoples Party, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has called on the National Assembly to tinker with the Electoral Act to ensure that all elective positions are held simultaneously in subsequent elections.

A suspected ritual killer (names withheld) has been arrested by the Police in Calabar, Cross River State, for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, who hawks banana, for ritual purposes.

A mother and her daughter were among the three persons who, Wednesday, lost their lives in a ghastly road accident on Benin-Sapele Road in Benin, Edo State.

AKURE-A 65 years old father and his 24 years old son were amongst armed robbery suspects, kidnappers and fraudsters paraded by the Ondo State Police Command Wednesday.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last night made a dramatic U-turn to clear embattled Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipreye Sylva for next year’s guber polls. The rulling party’s change of heart followed plea on Sylva’s behalf by his fellow PDP governors to President Goodluck Jonathan to endorse the governor. Sylva’s clearance is expected to be announced this morning.

The naira, yesterday, firmed slightly against the U.S dollar on the interbank market after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and some oil firms sold the dollar directly to lenders to help lift the local currency, dealers said.