When Sani Tella, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command, gave free rein to his anger by beating up Dr. Okafor Chukwujiekwu of the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Department of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, he probably did not bargain for the storm his action would engender.

Africa Development Bank, AfDB, yesterday approved N47 billion loan for Nigeria to finance the transport sector and governance reform programme.

NO fewer than 4,3945,651 children below the age of five will be immunized during the National Immunization Plus Days, NIPDs, in Lagos State, beginning tomorrow through March 5th, 2013.

Federal Government has bowed to pressure from the National Assembly to sack the controversial chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, from the public service of Nigeria following his refusal to appear before the lawmakers after several invitations.

PORT HARCOURT – EX-militant commanders in the Niger Delta region have warned hoodlums to desist from further acts of kidnapping in the region.

Four persons were yesterday burnt to death following an auto crash in Makurdi.

Emma Anosike represented Anambra North in the senate between 2003 and 2005 and before then, was a member of the House of Representatives. In the 2003 governorship election he was running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Prof. Charles Soludo. In this interview, Anosike, who is one of the governorship aspirants in the PDP asserts that though many people have indicated interest in the race, the election will not be a do or die affair so long as a brother of his from Anambra North emerges governor. Excerpts.

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has assured of security in the state, saying he was on oath to secure lives and property of people of the state.

Nigerians are currently generating over 6,000 Mega Watts of electricity through the use of generators in their homes, corporate offices and industrial places, far more than what the Federal Government is producing through the power stations across the country, Professor Rahaman Bello, Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, UNILAG, has said.

A Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate, Mr. Emma Woke, Rivers State, has discharged seven out of the 18 suspects, arrested in connection with the killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt on October 5, last year at Omuokiri- Aluu, Rivers State.

Hundreds of hijab (Muslim veil for women) wearing school pupils under the aegis of the Muslim Student Society of Nigeria, MSSN, yesterday, paralysed activities at the Alausa Secretariat, office of Governor of Lagos Babatunde Fashola over alleged flogging and victimization of two pupils by their principals for wearing Hijab, within and outside the school premises.

It’s a Nigerian thing. As soon as you hear a figure in foreign currency, you quickly go for your calculator-imaginary or otherwise-and convert it into dwindling-in-value-naira. It doesn’t matter whether the money is yours or someone else’s but as soon as a $ 100 is mentioned, visions of about N16, 000 float around your head.

The indoor sports hall of the Asaba Township Stadium yesterday witnessed a gathering of titans and consummate personalities during the inauguration of 32 sporting associations in DeltaState.

THE crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been taken to the floors of the National Working Committee, NWC and National Executive Committee, NEC.

Muslims in the South-West under the umbrella of the Joint Muslims’ Action Forum (JOMAF) have called for Sovereign National Conference (SNC), through which a true Constitution would emerge.