The Borno State Government has expressed worry over negative reports which it said had been portraying the state as a war zone.

Former Nigerian international and chairman of the committee vested with the responsibility to set up the Nigerian Court of Arbitration for Sports, Adokiye Amiesimaka has said that the free fall the country’s football was witnessing was not as a result of poor coaching.

Political tension rose in Edo State penultimate Thursday when two time Governor of old Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, gathered the cream of Bini leaders from all sectors of life for a discussion to deliberate on the course of the Bini nation. The gathering which was called under the aegis of the Enu-nue-Edo, a Bini Socio-cultural organization, fueled insinuations of a Bini agenda ahead of the 2012 governorship election. Excerpts:

Owners of defective buildings in Lagos State, whose houses had been marked for demolition have been warned to undertake the demolition themselves as government intervention could be costlier and might even lead to tougher sanctions.

MALLAM Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria so likes the sound of his voice that keeping quiet is never an option. He must be heard, no matter the subject, no matter the forum and he seems to have formed the habit of delivering addresses at various occasions.

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, said the apex bank was considering allowing the naira to depreciate further by setting new band of between N155 and N156 per dollar within which the currency can float.

Just a few months after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, announced a new Multi-Year Tariff Order, MYTO, the Commission is now seeking the removal of the Meter Maintenance Fund, MMF, which could reduce the monthly tariff paid by consumers across the country.

UMBRELLA body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has dissociated itself from a purported invitation by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters over two bills on Transfer of convicted Offenders and Same Sex Marriage which are before the National Assembly.

The Joint Task Force, JTF in the Niger Delta code-named, Operation Restore Hope, has arrested over 100 suspects in the last three months for crude oil theft and operation of illegal refineries.

A Benin High Court has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the Commander 322 Artillery Regiment of the Nigerian Army and three others from further invasion, demolition of buildings or forceful possession of lands belonging to Oghede community of Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state, pending the determination of the substantive suit.