Veteran defender Rio Ferdinand was the highest-profile casualty on Wednesday as England manager Roy Hodgson unveiled his squad for the European Championships.

Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accused UN prosecutors Wednesday of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, said the state will require over 540 million gallons of water daily to address the water shortage in the state.

AGBAZILO and Okpebho are two components of Esan People in Edo Central Senatorial Zone of Edo State. The late Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Ali and Professor Oserheimen Aigberaodion Osunbor belong to the Okpebho extraction, while the great statesman, the late Anthony Enahoro and the living legend of Nigerian politics, Chief Anthony Anenih, are of the Agbazilo extraction.

The Minister of Police Affairs, retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, says the Boko Haram sect has so far carried out 118 attacks in six northern states and the FCT, killing 308 people.

Enugu – Unknown gunmen have abducted a six-year old girl, Miss Kosisochukwu Akilo, from her family house in Enugu. The mother of the girl, Mrs Ebele Akilo, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Enugu yesterday that the gunmen broke into their house in the early hours of Sunday.

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 12.9 per cent in April, year-on-year, driven largely by non-food items and a very price stable comparative month in April last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, yesterday.

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.