IMMEDIATE past National Security Adviser, NSA, Lt. Gen Aliyu Gusua, Saturday, called for the adoption of the right strategy to curtail the wave of terrorism unleashed in the north by the Boko Haram sect.

Former Corre-spondent of Vanguard Newspaper in Port Harcourt, George Onah is to be buried on Monday, December 19.

State governments have been urged to seek ways of removing impediments to business growth in their states to pave way for the wealth and employment creation.

FOR about two weeks running, controversy has continued to dog the death, November, 26, of the former gubernatorial candidate of the Citizens Popular Party, CPP, in Delta State, Chief Ogbe Onokpite, who was shot dead by the police in Warri, Delta State, allegedly in a crossfire.

In life, they were strange political bed fellows, but the death of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu has become their unifying factor.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Saturday that he has no intention of retiring, saying doing so would be an act of “cowardice.”

South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday said NATO’s campaign in Libya left a scar on the continent that will take long to heal.

An explosion damaged a mosque early Saturday in a town in Nigeria’s southern oil rich Niger Delta, police and a government source said.

Ikeja The Lagos State Government on Friday said it would host the best-ever National Sports Festival in 2012.

Athletics coach Tobias Igwe (a.k.a. Toblow) has declared that the National Sports Commission, NSC should have no problem supporting the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s programme for the 2012 season.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp believes his side’s push for a first-ever Premier League title is neither helped nor hindered by Manchester United and Manchester City’s inclusion in the Europa League.

The Commissioner of Police in Bauchi State, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba, said that bandits on Friday used locally-made rockets and bombs to burn down Ganjuwa Divisional Police Headquarters.

Libya’s new rulers said on Saturday they are ready to forgive the forces of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi who battled rebels trying to topple his autocratic regime during the brutal revolution.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has insisted he doesn’t care if he’s liked while continuing to call media criticism of his Stamford Bridge regime “unfair”.

Mr. Okey Igbudu the Head of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Kaduna Zonal office, says the agency is prosecuting 270 corruption cases involving 516 persons.