Abuja – Leading lights of the opposition on the banner of the Congress of Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday, rounded up on the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a party bent on destroying the country.

Eulogies were yesterday showered on the late President Umar Yar’Adua for his broad-mindedness and statesmanship while in office.

The Federal Government has said effective from January end 2012, power equipment and machinery will attract zero duty as contained in President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2012 National Budget Appropriation Bill, tabled before the National Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja.

Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, yesterday, said he would establish a special court with the sole jurisdiction of trying cases bothering on official corruption and economic crimes.

FOR the police, the main issue is the name for the explosion that killed eight and injured scores of others in Kaduna. Traders, who survived the incident, gave detailed accounts of how the bombers arrived on a motorcycle for their deadly operation.

The Justice G. A. Oguntade-led panel set up by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to look into the legality and fairness of the $235 million fine slammed on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways over price-fixing commenced sitting yesterday in Lagos.

Ogun State police command yesterday paraded 17 suspected armed robbers including six members of the armed robbery gang that allegedly struck banks along Akarigbo road Sabo, Sagamu in the state last month.

Scores of angry indigenes of Ohii community, Owerri West local council area of Imo State yesterday marched through the major roads in Owerri municipality to protest the gruesome murder of their son, Dr. Moses Amako.

FEDERAL Government has given a victim recently gang-raped by ten men in Bayelsa State a grant of N500, 000 to set her up in her welding business.

European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. David MacRae, has urged the Federal Government to engage in wider consultations and enlightenment of the public on fuel subsidy removal for proper understanding.