OSUN State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the state government are heading for a showdown over the wearing of hijab by female Muslim students in Christian public schools as CAN claimed it was parts of Islamization of Osun agenda by the present administration in the state, headed by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola.

Nigeria requires sustained expenditure of about $14.2 billion per year over the next decade to provide non-existent infrastructure and fix the ailing ones. This amount translates to about 12 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP. Currently, the country spends about $5.9 billion per year on Federal infrastructure or five percent of the country’s GDP.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, frustrated efforts by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to cover the financial records of its 16 subsidiaries.

AHEAD of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting which holds Wednesdays, the public occasionally learns of the key issues to be discussed. An issue considered pressing was the Federal Government’s intention to borrow N251 billion to finance deficits in the infrastructure budget.

The Federal Government, yesterday, lifted the suspension imposed on Dana Airlines last Saturday, after a meeting among officials of the airline, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, and Aviation Ministry in Abuja.

Board of Directors of Ojukwu Transport Limited, OTL, has expressed disappointment and surprise over the response by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to its complaint of alleged ‘fraud and obtaining by false pretences and other offences levelled against Mr. Emmanuel Omuojine, an estate agent to Bianca Ojukwu and the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

THE Vatican, yesterday, released details of today’s Pope Francis’ Installation Mass, saying it would be a simplified version of the 2005 installation Mass that brought Pope Benedict XVI to the papacy, with many gestures to Eastern rite Catholics and Orthodox Christians in a sign of church unity.

NO fewer than 6,000 ghost workers have been uncovered by Ondo State Government following the outcome of a staff audit committee it set up.

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have promised to make up for an opening day loss to Mali to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2013 African Youth Championship.

Lagos lawyer, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has asked a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, to order Standard Chartered Bank to demolish, with immediate effect, a 14-storey building under construction situated at 142 Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.

AFTER routing the Fulani, al-Kanemi returned Mai Dunoma to his domain. The siege continued until after the death of Uthman Dan Fodio in 1817.

LAGOS — A Federal High Court in Lagos has joined the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as a defendant in a suit seeking to revoke the operating licence of Airtel Nigeria Limited for allegedly operating an illegal lottery.

PAN-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has chided a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Col. Ahmadu Ali (rtd) for making uncharitable comments about the Yoruba people.

Hopes of the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, returning to office a year and seven months after he was suspended by the National Judicial Council, NJC, were yesterday, dashed by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

President Jonathan, yesterday, said he suspected that some of the workers of the Setraco Construction Company, who were kidnapped by the Ansaru militant group may still be alive.