Dana Airlines has begin talks with aircraft manufacturers to renew its fleet of aircraft, but declined to state which aircraft type it would acquire.

Barely 48 hours after an armed robbery gang attacked the convoy of former Commissioner for Information in the Otunba Gbenga Daniel administration in Ogun State and the Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Nigerian Compass Newspaper and Westerner Magazine, Mr. Sina Kawonise, Osun State Police Command yesterday claimed that it has arrested four suspects in connection with the incident.

Hundreds of traders yesterday at the popular Itoku Market in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital protested the plan by the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun to demolish their shops for road expansion .

After the official nnouncement last week Thursday at Abuja by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Executive Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde and Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, that from 2013, Computer- Based Test (CBT), will be used to conduct UTME, had since received reactions from stakeholders in the sector.

Prof. Epiphany Azinge, SAN is the Director-General Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The institute is the apex body for legal training in the country. Recently the institute decided to mount a specialized judicial track training programme for lawyers desiring to seek appointment to the bench.

THE growing state of insecurity in Nigeria is a grave concern to patriotic citizens, organisations, and friends of the country. Well meaning individuals and groups are having sleepless nights in efforts to find lasting panacea to the insecurity in the country.

Federal Government, yesterday, lamented the recent low ranking of Nigeria on foreign direct investment, FDI, by international ranking organisations.

Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom, expressed government’s frustration at the 8th National Conference on Investment, NCI, in Abuja.

PLANS by President Goodluck Jonathan to borrow externally to the tune of $7.905 billion (aboutN1.23 trillion), yesterday, was criticised by the Senate, as the lawmakers argued that there was no rationale behind such big loan.

“I’m a living testimony to what you can achieve through football. I may not be as educated as Davidson Onwumi but as far as football is concerned I’m a professor.

The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has said assured of the Federal Government’s commitment towards achieving a double digit GDP growth rate as a catalyst to meeting the vision 2020 target.

THE Ondo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has faulted the recent sack of nine Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen by Governor Olusegun Mimiko, alleging that it is a ploy to deceive the people to cover up his nefarious activities in the council areas.

The recent launch of the book, Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Finance and Coordinating Minister once again puts the former World Bank Vice President back to the writers’ platform.

DELTA State Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Antonia Ashiedu, runs the Institute of Education, ICE, camp created for flood victims. Recently the Camp Commandant shared with Vanguard Metro, VM, an account of how one of the flood displaced persons at the camp almost committed suicide.

The battle for the much coveted $100,000 prize money of the 2012 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas NLNG sponsored Nigeria Prize for Literature came to its climax last week with Enugu State born Chika Unigwe emerging winner.

A sordid drama akin to the tragic incident at Alu in Rivers State is being re-enacted between the police in Lagos and residents of Vono Street in the notorious Mushin area of the State. The difference is that while the police in Rivers state waited for public outcry and condemnation before swinging into action, their counterparts in Lagos did not waste time before taken action.