Indications emerged, yesterday, that despite the ultimatum handed to her by the Senate, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Murktar, may have resolved to stick to her earlier decision not to administer oath of office on one of the newly appointed Justices for the Court of Appeal.

A village head, his wife and a little girl said to be their relation were on Wednesday murdered by gunmen at Kachin village around Kurra Falls in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Much as I had wanted to sermonise on the issues of bombing before the overtures of Boko Haram for peace talk, the current Hajj and events in Saudi Arabia left no space for other issues.

ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has described as desecration of the sacred traditional institution for the police to invite a monarch to their station to make a statement.

With the final work being carried out in all the facilities expected to be used for the 18th National Sport Festival tagged Eko 2012, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, believes the state is fully ready to stage a befitting games.

AN employment scam has been uncovered in some of the flood relief camps in Delta State, as swindlers are allegedly selling employment forms to victims at N20,000, with a view to securing jobs for them.

The cold war between the Presidency and the former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, deepened, yesterday, when the Villa took exception to the allegation by the former head of state that the Boko Haram sect was a creation of the PDP-led government and that they should not try to robe him into its problems.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, yesterday, demanded to know the whereabout of grants from developed countries and various multilateral organisations to Nigeria.

Nigerians residing illegally in Switzerland have returned home under the Voluntary Return Programme introduced by the Swiss Department of Migration.

Amnesty International yesterday described as a diversionary tactic, condemnations of its report that documents human rights violations in the country by the Police and the military.

Strong indication emerged yesterday that 19 out of 26 members of Ogun State House of Assembly have compiled impeac- hable offences of the Speaker, Suraj Adekunbi.

President of African Network for Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, who was detained by the police over the murder of the Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, has been exonerated from the crime by the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Edo State Ministry of Justice.

EIGHT commercial motorcyclists, otherwise known as Okada riders, and a passenger, have been arraigned before an Asaba chief magistrate’s court for allegedly violating Delta State Government’s ban on their operations.

The European Investment Bank (EIB), Europe’s long-term lending institution, and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, have entered agreement to strengthen Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa through a Euro50 million (N10 billion) regional funding initiative

The Ghana High Commissioner to Nigeria, Alhaji Baba Kamara, has said that even though the economies of Nigeria and Ghana have been growing in the last decades, it has not translated into the economic development that is required to lift both countries from poverty.