Senate President David Mark, yesterday, described the incessant bombing of major cities, market places, and worship centres across Nigeria by terrorist groups as a war against the nation.

SIX members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, were yesterday sentenced to prison by a chief magistrate’s court sitting in Asaba, Delta, for wearing regalia of defunct Biafra and proclaiming to be members of the group.

The security situation in Imo State worsened Monday night, following brutal murder of Eze Stanley Akuneto, traditional ruler of Umueze-Abazu, Ogwa, Mbaitoli local government area of the state.

Super Eagles preparations for the May 23 international friendly against Peru in Lima, started on Tuesday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja, with all the players invited in attendance safe for the injured duo of Solomon Jabason and Shehu Maijema.

NIGERIA has continued to experience persistent deterioration in the quality of governance, because the rules and regulations for doing official businesses are deliberately ignored or circumvented to facilitate corrupt practices, Acting Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has said.

The efforts of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Oyo State to gain numerical superiority in the state House of Assembly paid off, yesterday, as two lawmakers, one each from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP and Accord Party, AP, defected to ACN giving the ruling party majority in the legislative arm.

Considering that voice telephony has just become a basic service in many countries of the world today, while data transmission defines for them the speed which businesses are conducted in the new world order, Accenture, gathered technology experts and other industry stakeholders last week, in Lagos, to brainstorm on possible ways of promoting and sustaining broadband availability in Nigeria.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, dismissed an application urging it to review its earlier ruling on the Borno State governorship election appeal.

There was a mild drama yesterday when workers of Ewekoro Local Government in Ogun State held the Transition Committee Chairman, Mr.Sunday Akinyemi, hostage for hours, accusing him of planning to use their April salary running into N34.2 million to host Governor Ibikunle Amosun on his local government area tour.

As part of measures to reduce the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevalence rate in Nigeria, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, yesterday, launched a five-year strengthening integrated delivery of HIV/AIDS services project with an estimated budget of $224,000,000.