The Federal Government has entered into agreements with two French companies for the expansion of Nigeria’s transmission network, valued at about $200 million or N3.14 billion.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has been asked to invoke its powers and abort any move by President Goodluck Jonathan to reinstate the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami.

The feeling in many quarters in Imo State presently is that these certainly are not the best of times in the Eastern Heartland against the backdrop of the prevailing security challenges bordering on armed robbery and kidnapping. The security situation in the state worsened Monday night, May 7, 2012, following the brutal murder of Eze Stanley Akuneto, the traditional ruler of Umueze-Abazu, Ogwa, Mbaitoli local government area of the state.

Ogun State Government yesterday denied obtaining a N40 billion bond from Brazil, but it got the approval of the state House of Assembly to borrow only N25 billion for its development projects.

KANO – A Kano High Court, yesterday, sentenced to death, by hanging, Bello Garba Bello, alias Baba, an undergraduate of Kano State University of Science and Technology for killing his parents and younger ones in 2010.

GOVERNOR Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, upbraided a member of the House of Representatives representing Askira Uba/Hawul Federal Constituency in the state, who addressed his aide as ‘Your Excellency’ and feeling jittery while addressing him, wondering why the legislator could not even pronounce his name correctly.

THE police in Enugu State are now trying the unravel the circumstances surrounding alleged stage-managed suicide of a 32-year-old house wife, Mrs Obioma Onuh on March 14, this year.

PIECEMEAL development will not help Nigeria. The national attitude to development is mirred in poor choices that highlight the blinkered approach to development. It should be cause for concern.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has offered to mediate in the face-off between striking doctors in public hospitals in Lagos State and the state government.

HEADS of anti-corruption agencies, yesterday, held a close door meeting on methodology to be adopted in prosecuting alleged oil thieves mentioned in the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee report on fuel subsidy.

There was a stunning revelation, yesterday, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of ongoing scam in land administration at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

KANO State High Court, yesterday, sentenced to death by hanging an undergraduate of the state University of Science and Technology, Bello Garba, for killing his biological parents and younger ones in 2010.

Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will tomorrow in Abuja unveil his hit squad for the three big games in the month of June.

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Delta State, have arrested 41 suspects in connection with various drug offences. They included a woman caught with 10 grammes of substance suspected to be cocaine.

Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday, painted a gloomy picture of the Nigerian Capital Market as he told the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc committee investigating the near collapse of the Capital Market that no amount of regulation can stop the crash of the market as crashes are normal in the stock market.