THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South East zone, yesterday alleged that the Northern Islamist sect, Boko Haram and its sponsors had concluded plans to declare a Jihad against the Southern part of the country with the deployment of over 6,000 fundamentalists to the South to prosecute the war.

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, yesterday, disagreed with the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, over the powers of the apex bank to disburse funds.

Last week, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at its 161st Ordinary Meeting of the Conference, in Vienna, Austria, decided to retain its production output at 30 million barrels per day; Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in this interview with Clara Nwachukwu, argued that the decision was based on consideration of global events. Excerpts:

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has threatened to deal with importers and exporters of regulated products who fail to comply with regulatory processes, saying that the act had led to many products not being checked by the agency at the ports.