A High Court in Abakaliki on Wednesday sentenced three men to death by hanging for stealing.

The leadership of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) met with President Goodluck Jonathan late Wednesday night on issues of security and national unity

An expatriate working with Borini Prono Construction Company has been kidnapped in Ilorin, Kwara State.

History will be made tomorrow when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions the first locally made warship, NNS ANDONI, constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers.

Umuahia—A United States-based Nigerian, Emeka Mazie, yesterday dragged his 96-year-old father to court for insisting to re-marry after the demise of his wife eight years ago. The suit with number HU/54/2012 filed before the Umuahia High Court 4, is presided over by Justice Agwu Kalu.

FOR its refusal to appear before the Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources, Downstream, Appropriations and Finance, the Senate, yesterday, issued a subpoena to the Managing Director of KPMG.

All African countries stood still for Oluwaseun Alamu when he emerged best science student in Africa during UNICEF World Science Day 2012 competition.

THE effort of producing the May 29 presidential address dripped through every line. President Goodluck Jonathan wanted Nigerians to know how hard he had worked in the past year though many think he hardly worked.

THE Anambra State branch of Importers Association of Nigeria and the National Task Force against illegal importation of firearms and ammunition said yesterday that they had intercepted a trailer load of dangerous arms and ammunition in the commercial city of Onitsha.

Following the inability of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to amicably resolve issues surrounding the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015, an Abuja High Court, yesterday, fixed June 21 to begin hearing on the matter.

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers, NUPENG, made good its threat of embarking on a solidarity strike in support of the sacked Lagos doctors, yesterday.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, struck out the suit that sought to bar President Goodluck Jonathan from reinstating the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, to office.

Senator Walid Jibrin, Secretary of Board of Trustees, BoT, Peoples Democratic Part, PDP, yesterday, said that discussions on 2015 elections were diversionary and uncalled for now against the backdrop that President Goodluck Jonathan must first be assessed before the people will decide on whether he deserves to be re-elected in 2015.

THIRTEEN days to the 19th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, dubbed the freest and fairest polls ever conducted in Nigeria, and 39 days to the 14th year of the death of the presumed winner of that election, Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola, the Federal Government, Tuesday, honoured Abiola.

Authorities of the University of Lagos, yesterday, ordered immediate closure of the university following protests by students of the institution which entered second day over the renaming of the school to Moshood Abiola University. This came as the Federal Government insisted that there was no going back on the decision.