Thirteen people died and six others were seriously injured on Monday when a bus and a car collided near Azare town, in Nigeria’s northern Bauchi state, a road safety official said.

Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft.

Super Eagles technical crew and backroom staff on Mondayevening took time off their schedule and on behalf of the players signed the condolence register of legendary striker, Rashidi Yekini, who died in Ibadan last Friday and has since been buried according to Islamic rites.

Gunmen in Kaduna state on Monday shot dead a Lebanese man and his Nigerian driver and abducted another Lebanese national, the state police spokesman said.

Aston Business School is organising a five-day strategic leadership programme aimed at exposing senior executives from developing countries to business performance in the global market competition.

Lagos State government on Monday, made real its threat by sacking all the striking medical doctors in the state. Each doctor was served a dismissal letter dated Friday, May 4, 2012 and signed by the CMD of LASUTH, Professor David Oke.

`There’s more to life than GDP,” is a favourite refrain of left-leaning social commentators and environmental activists.

Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the city of Potiskum Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with a church and classrooms burnt and police firing tear gas.

THE endorsement of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as the Bini candidate by the Palace of the Oba of Benin, last week, must have left a pill, too bitter to swallow, in the mouth of the PDP candidate, Charles Airhiavbere and his supporters because it has completely rubbished the plans of his leader, Chief Tony Anenih and Mr Dan Orbih, the state party chairman who influenced his emergence as the PDP flagbearer.

European and world leaders reached out Monday to president-elect Francois Hollande, France’s first Socialist head of state in 17 years, despite jitters about his pledge to renegotiate Europe’s austerity pact.