Tunisia’s new president Moncef Marzouki was sworn in Tuesday before the country’s constituent assembly as the nation turned a new page after the revolution which ousted the repressive Ben Ali regime.

Michael Jackson’s 13-year-old daughter Paris is working on her movie debut — and she will talk about it in public for the first time this week.

Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, has condemned the illegal arrest and harassment of Nigerians in South Africa. He also called for the granting of visas to Nigerian diplomats and officials to boost free movement.

THERE is a side to the proposed increase of prices of petroleum products that government glosses over to keep focus on increasing prices next year. This aspect is about electricity, which remains a challenge to living in Nigeria.

AS a follow-up to the recent Northern Peace Conference ostensibly held to break the suspicious silence from the North over the Boko Haram terrorist group, a meeting of all former National Security Advisers, NSAs, who are incidentally from the North is to hold today in Abuja.

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State weekend dismissed the submission of the name of Mr. Seriake Dickson to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as its candidate for next year’s election in the state, saying the party’s decision does not change his commitment to the governorship race and the reality that the PDP is engaged in a charade whose product cannot stand.

Residents of Ikole Ekiti were yesterday thrown into confusion when the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, located in the town was blown apart with substance suspected to be dynamite.

There was pandemonium in Osogbo on Sunday when a truck crushed a motorcyclist and three passengers to death.

Activities at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, were paralysed, yesterday, as National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, protested the hike in tuition fees at Lagos State University, LASU, and other tertiary institutions in the state.

Families of seven crew members, who got burnt to death in an explosion aboard a vessel, M/T Tutuma on June 20, 2006, in Lagos, and surviving members of the crew, have asked a Federal High Court, Lagos, to commit the owner of the vessel, Prince Akinfemiwa Akinruntan, to prison for selling the scrap of the vessel, despite a court order arresting it.

BANKERS across Ondo State yesterday, join their colleagues in Ogun, Oyo and Ekiti states, in closing shop for the third day running to ward off possible armed robbery attack.

THREE officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials including its Head of Operations in Edo State were yesterday brought before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin for allegedly collecting the sum of N2 million bribe from one Mr. Ted Edward Iseghoghi.

Policemen attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji-Adele, Lagos, have arrested a man in connection with the mysterious disappearance of a 55-year-old businessman, three months ago, in Lagos.

Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Keshi will tomorrow in Abuja meet with his employers to discuss about modalities for the resumption of camp for the home-based Eagles.

The State Security Service,SSS, yesterday, arrested six persons who were behind the theft of Direct Data Capturing,DDC, machines, and other sensitive materials used by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, in last April’s general elections in Lagos State.