GENEVA, December 15, 2011 (AFP) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday upheld a decision by football’s European ruling body UEFA to refuse FC Sion re-entry to the Europa League after the Swiss club breached player recruitment rules.

WASHINGTON, (AFP) – A bioethics panel that investigated a Guatemalan sex disease scandal urged the US government Thursday to consider compensating victims who are harmed by participating in future research.

NEW YORK, (AFP) – US stocks pushed higher Thursday after three straight falls boosted by a sharp downturn in US weekly jobless claims and Spain’s surprisingly successful debt sale.

PORT HARCOURT: TWENTY six bodies have been recovered at the Mgbuoduhia River around Rumuolumeni area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Apple’s iPad has been cleared for use by American Airlines pilots during takeoff and landing in a move that could make bulky flight bags crammed with manuals and charts a thing of the past.

An Italian construction worker kidnapped in Nigeria’s main oil region has been freed after being held for a day and following a ransom demand of more than $700,000, officials said Thursday.

Overwhelmed by the huge number of candidates seeking admission into the institution yearly, the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) has pleaded with parents to patronize other universities in the country.

Men of Ogun State Police Command yesterday foiled an early morning robbery attempt on Wema Bank along Idi-Iroko road in Ota, Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun State allegedly leaving many of the robbers injured.

The Aviation Ministry has confirmed receiving the report of the alleged N13 billion fraud on the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria Project of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA.

Nigerian Air Force personnel from Logistics Command, Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, engaged a 12-man robbery gang operating on Ota/Idiriko Road, Ogun State, in a shoot-out and foiled the gang’s attempt to snatch vehicles.

Worried by the deteriorating state of Nigeria’s capital market, House of Representatives, yester-day, directed its Committee on Capital Market and Institutions to carry out a thorough investigation to identify the sector’s latent and manifest problems.

No fewer than 38 persons were feared dead in a boat mishap on Ngbuodohia waterway in the Rumuolumeni area of Port Harcourt.

Fulani community in Kaduna State has blamed the incessant attacks on minority Christians in the state on Fulani from Niger Republic.

Irked by the kidnap and subsequent death of the Medical Director of Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Dr. Moses Amako, staff of the establishment yesterday embarked on a peaceful march to the State House of Assembly, Owerri, to express their anger.

About eight children recently stolen from some communities in Imo State have been recovered by the State Police Command.