ENUGU- THE remains of former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who passed on November 26, would be laid to rest on February 2, next year, the South- East Governors’ Forum announced on Sunday.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Ikeja has granted permission to a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, to interrogate and compel the Federal Government to disclose the details and basis of spending on fuel subsidy in 2011.

After initial grandstanding, British Airways, BA, has gone into negotiation with Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, over the $135 million it was asked to pay to Nigerians as compensation, arising from fuel surcharge imposed on travellers in the country.

BAYELSA STATE Governor Timipre Sylva, yesterday, dared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when he declared that he will launch his campaign on the party’s platform on Wednesday despite the fact that he has been restrained from participating in the gubernatorial primaries last week.

Shareholders, yesterday, lashed out at the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, describing it as a misnomer in the history of the nation’s financial sector.

Six persons were killed, yesterday, while five others were injured when gunmen attacked Police Area Command headquarters and two new generation banks at Azare Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja, will today, determine the merit of a bail application that was tendered before it by Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who is facing trial over his alleged complicity in sponsorship of the dreaded Islamic Boko Haram sect.

Former Managing Director of Finbank Plc, Susan Iroche, who was charged before a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, for embezzling over N670 million has blamed her absence in court on non-serving of court processes.

The Nigeria U-17 team is billed to take on the winner of the fixture between Mozambique and Kenya next month in the African qualifiers for next year’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup finals taking place in Azerbaijan.

Governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, weekend, intensified his quest to reconcile with aggrieved stakeholders of the party and sections of the state over contentious issues that arose from the party’s ward congresses and primaries.

The new National/State Houses of Assembly Petition panel handling the retrial of the petition filed by the Labour Party, LP, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Action Congress of Nigeria, and Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu has warned that it will not tolerate delay by any of the parties.

IBADAN – IT is not yet celebration time for Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State as the Peoples Democratic Party in the state filed an appeal against the judgment delivered by the State Election Petition tribunal which confirmed the victory of the governor in the April 2011 election.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has kicked against the decision of the Federal Government to delay the listing of public companies on the stock exchange after their privatisation.

ABUJA- As the global community, Friday, moved close to having a Fund to tackle the challenges of Climate Change in developing and least-developed countries following the submission of the report of the Transitional Committee on the Fund, Nigeria has called for proper structuring of the Fund to allow for justice.

Jos-The Plateau State Government has initiated steps to shore up its internally-generated revenue to a monthly billion naira mark with the setting up of a special task force to actualize the dream.