Nigerian Army, yesterday, retired 51 senior officers, with their retirement letters stipulating that they proceed on terminal leave with effect from December 31, 2012.

Gunmen alleged to be Fulani herdsmen yesterday killed three people at Bachit in Riyom Local Government Area in a night raid.

AN attempt by four persons to blow up the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu with explosives was yesterday foiled by operatives of the Explosive Ordinance Department, EOD, of Enugu State Police Command.

Nigerian opposition political parties and second term governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are working from different angles to stop the second term aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan, it emerged yesterday.

HOW am I going to take care of the children now? They have made life unbearable for me and my family. They have taken away our breadwinner and made me a widow. I never imagined that I will be a widow now.” With these words, Mrs Modupe Popoola, the wife of the deceased danfo driver, Isaac Popoola, who was allegedly killed by LATSMA officials wailed uncontrollably, Thursday, as sympathisers thronged their Lagos home to commiserate with her. The late commercial bus driver was killed on December 24.

A 28 year-old man Ikechi Okoro who claimed to be a Navy officer is now on the run after allegedly killing one Joy Chidera Timoty who is 12 years old and primary five pupil of Holy Trinity Anglican Primary School, Calabar, Cross River State with a Pepsi bottle over N800 indebtedness to the mother of the deceased.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, wept openly while presenting the 2013 appropriation bill before the state House of Assembly following the havoc wreaked on the state by members of an Islamic sect.

Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, confirmed the nomination of Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga, 63, as the new Deputy Governor of the state.

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State on Wednesday said the security threat by the Boko Haram in the northern part of the country had stalled development in the region.

Edo State Government,yesterday,described as laughable, the travel advisory issued by the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State, which listed Edo State as unsafe for visitors during this holiday season.

OYO Police command has arrested a couple for the abduction of the wife of a former Military Governor of old Western region, Brig. Gen. Oluwole Rotimi (rtd).

Federal Government and African Union have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the contribution of one Formed Police Unit, FPU, of 140 police officers and other resources to African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM.

Until there is a West African policy to address how each country within the Economic Community of West African State, ECOWAS, region releases water, the recent flooding that hit the country will occur again.

For Mr. Ozokolie Sunday,a resident of Idumota in Lagos, December 26, 2012 will go down as a day he would live to regret. Ozokolie owned four shops in the popular Jankara market which was gutted by fire on Wednesday. Looking dejected and unable to control his emotions, Ozokolie told Vanguard Metro that he lost goods worth over N15 million to the fire disaster. The shops were located at Numbers 43 and 45 Ojo Giwa Street in the thickly populated Lagos Island Business District.

ABIA State House of Assembly has banned construction of speed breakers on some federal and state roads in the state, describing them as a risk to road users.