AN expatriate has been kidnapped in Lagos, the US consulate said Sunday, but no further details were immediately available.

A commercial bus driver, Mr. Kasali Quadri, was arraigned, weekend, for attempting to kill a Lagos High Court judge, Justice E. Adebajo.

Let me quickly say this morning that I will pre-tend nothing happened in Calabar. In far away Ghana, I could not watch the match live, so I had to depend on second hand information.

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and Hyundai are both involved in deals to provide six LNG carrier ships between them to Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), the companies said. According to Reuters report, Samsung confirmed through a stock exchange announcement it had won an order to provide four ships to NLNG.

MINISTER of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, weekend shocked House of Representatives Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Finance and State & and Local Government with a revela- tion that the East-West road was awarded without design, due process and financial plan.

Nigerian youths in Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday in Abidjan described the death of Nigeria’s literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, as` `a loss to Africa’’.

The Senate has expressed concern over the spate of bombings and vandalisation of telecommunication facilities across the country, saying the development had become a major challenge for the sector.

THE Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, Sunday, expressed concern over what it described as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s drum of war ahead of the 2015 elections, with a call on security agencies to quiz the party’s national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, over his alleged inciting comments.

Ven. Shola Igbari, an Anglican cleric, has appealed to Christians to maintain peace with their neighbours during the Holy Week this came also as Rev. Fr. Henry Kwasu, another Abuja-based priest, advised Nigerians to cultivate the habit of forgiving and praying in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

THE crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, took another dimension, weekend, as 18 former members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party sacked by an Enugu High Court, dissociated themselves from the appeal filed by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh.

FOLLOWING the unraveling of the celebrated gang-rape case which allegedly took place at the Abia State University, ABSU, the state government has warned that it would no longer watch rumour mongers deliberately tarnish its image.

The Flying Eagles and the other semi finalists at the on-going African Youth Championship (AYC) will know their first round opponents at the forthcoming FIFA U-20 World Cup on Monday.

Iranian airlines are owing National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, NIOPDC, about $467 million for fuel, said Mostafa Kashkouli, Managing Director, NIOPDC.

The Nigeria Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon formalise a legal framework to effectively monitor operations of Bureau de Change (BDCs).

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, says it has paid a cumulative sum of N90.13 billion to depositors of 48 Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in liquidation as at December 31, 2012 just as it doled out N2.50 billion to insured depositors of 103 closed Microfinance Banks (MFBs).