Indications emerged, yesterday, that the Presidency had positioned its foot soldiers to expose the roles played by the leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, in padding the budget to the tune of N63 billion should the lawmakers insist on not backing down on some of the issues raised by them when they met on Wednesday night at the Villa.

It was in the Punch Newspapers that I read about Chioma Ajunwa and the “Where was President Jonathan” drama.

The recent mention of three Nigerian banks in the World Banking Brands Ranking, released by the Banker Magazine of the Financial Times of London group and Brand Finance has brought about an improvement in the status of Nigerian banks among its peers in the global financial community.

Fast foods are major attraction of fast moving consumers. Foods close to fast foods are in the Pastas category which are usually referred to as Spaghetti, the slippery and worm look recipe loved by children and adults alike.

This is developing to be a serious case of persecution of a Yoruba businessman by the Federal Government. Bi-Courtney had sued the Federal government for breach of contract and had been vindicated by the courts, both at the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

LAGOS — LAGOS State Government, weekend, urged residents to disregard insinuations of imminent attack on the state by the Boko Haram Islamic sect and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansaral Muslimana Fi Biladis –Sudan, saying the state was safe.

Bellview has said they will not accept the final report of the cause of the crash of their plane in Lisa village in Ogun State in 2005. The default airline is contending that the final report released by Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, in their website last Saturday was doctored.. The airline said what AIB said was the cause of the crash was speculative.

The 2013 edition of the All Nigeria Secondary Schools Football Championship tagged NNPC/Shell Cup enters the quarter finals Thursday with 10 schools vying for the four semi final tickets available, National Coordinator of the competition, Shola Akinwale has said.

LOKOJA — THE Kogi State Government, weekend restated its commitment to the development of cashew production in the country, arguing that if the industry was taken more seriously it could generate more revenue than petroleum to the federal coffer.

FOUR days after some chiefs and other 48 families in Ibadan filed a suit against Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State over the acquisition of their land measuring 404.74 acres, the government said yesterday that it had acquired the land.

Prof. Bioye Aluko, lecturer in the Department of Estate Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, stated this while delivering a paper on “Legal Framework for Land Market Regulation in an Emerging Megacity”, at the Mandatory Continuous Professional Development workshop organised by the Faculty of Land Administration and the Lagos branch of Nigerian Institution Estate Surveyors Valuers (NIESV).

Transactions in Over-the-Counter, OTC,bonds market fell by 13 per cent in 2012 said the Central Securities Clearing System, CSCS.

OWERRI—THE National Integrated Power Project, NIPP, may have run into a hitch, following the discovery that people whose property lie between Alaoji in Abia State and Owerri, Imo State, allegedly swindled by some estate surveyors and valuers are now spoiling for war.

UMUAHIA—MEMBERS of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the 17 local government areas of Abia State, weekend, stormed the Government House, to protests the re-admission of the former governor of the state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, into the party, saying they did not want him back.

THE Lagos State Government has ordered full investigation into the alleged detention and extortion of one Nkechi Omakagu, said to have been arrested by Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, officials for violating the restriction of movement order of the state sanitation laws leading to the loss of her pregnancy.