SENATE President David Mark yesterday said that if Broadcasting Organizations must meet the challenges of digitization before 2015, there was the urgent need for the body to have tax incentives.

The Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by 328 medical students dropped by the University of Jos (UNIJOS) in January 2011.

South African authorities said Wednesday they had recovered two bodies of illegal diamond miners from a disused mine tunnel and up to 16 were still trapped underground.

Supporters of Mali’s coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo said they have named him head of a transition government, ignoring a deal mediated by regional leaders and signed at the weekend.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in collaboration with an Intergovernmental agency; The Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control for the West and Central African Region (Abuja MoU) says it is set to hold a 3-days workshop for heads of maritime administration from 22 countries of the region who are members of the memorandum.

Gunmen on Wednesday shot dead a Police Inspector, Sa’idu Aliyu attached to Government House, Sokoto.

IT was Professor Wole Soyinka who once suggested that Nigerian politicians seeking elective or appointive positions should first be subjected to psychiatric examination.

Shock and disbelieve could best describe the expression on the faces of residents of Alagbado area of Lagos State last week, following the arrest and startling discovery that one of their neighbors, Mr Abraham Olaniyan, sold his day-old baby to an Anambra State business woman for N350,000.

After his split with his long-time friend and colleague, Don Jazzy, D’banj may have pitched tent with other Nigerian acts.

The 3rd Cross River State Primary/Secondary Schools Track and Field Championship began yesterday at the U.J Esuene Stadium Calabar with over 1000 kids from all the local governments in the State participating.