KANO – Directorate of Security Services (DSS) Wednesday, paraded one Mr Ayuba Usman believed to be main supplier of explosive materials to terrorist group.

I ATTENDED the last District Conference of Rotary International District 9140 recently. A team of Argentine nationals led by Rotarian Ricardo Cravero, a chemical engineer, was at the Conference as Group Study Exchange, GSE, and they lectured Rotarians on some salient issues about Argentina.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday requested all foreign airlines authorised dealers to submit information on tickets sold in the country in the last 12 years.

Nigerien President, Issufou Mahamadou, has emerged the Chairman of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC).

Governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State says the on-going efforts by his administration to purge the civil service in the state will reposition the service for better performance.

Mr Mohammed Abubakar, the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IG), has directed state Police Commissioners to provide security for media houses across the country.

A para-athlete, Femi Alabi, on Tuesday in Lagos criticised Nigeria’s preparations for the London 2012 Paralympic Games scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 9.

The Federal Government has confirmed that 9,000 out of 11,000 causal workers in PHCN across the country, a union leader said.

NEWS report has it that a clandestine Radio Biafra Station has been established to broadcast from London. According to the Director of the Radio Station, the reason for the resuscitation of the radio station is to “set a largely misinformed public free from the twin evil of tyrannical rule of a cabal of ill-educated and institutionally corrupt men and women and the sponsored sectarian killings directed against Christian Southerners living in Northern Nigeria”.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to address the spate of bombings in some parts of the country.