A witness, in the on-going trial of the former Managing Director of Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank),Francis Atuche, Professor Pat Utomi, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that the loans granted by the former Managing Director of the Bank were ratified by the bank’s board of directors.

Imo State Police Command, has with the assistance of villagers, smashed a gang of dare-devil kidnappers that recently abducted Mrs. Agnes Onwuzuruike, from her Umuduruaro-Agbaja, Ehime Mbano local council area country home.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has described late governor of Ondo State Dr. Olusegun Agagu as a committed political leader who operated in a manner that was above pettiness, rancour and the usual acrimony that is very pervasive in our politics.

Nigeria crude oil output, yesterday, rose by 150,000 barrels per day as Shell Nigeria said it has reopened its Trans Niger Pipeline, TNP, after about two months of closure.

—A 60-year-old man, Mohammed Ibrahim, was, yesterday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos, over alleged impersonation and fraud.

EKPORO community in Eleme, Rivers State, has petitioned the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, to intervene in the lingering land dispute with neighbouring Ogu people in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state, to avert loss of lives and property.

A blind man, Shehu Sarki, 62, of Aso Pada, Monday, told a Grade 1 Area Court, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, that he did not entice his friend’s wife.

A newly married couple, Francis Edeh and Ann, along with two others died in a car crash, weekend on the Ugep-Abakaliki Road.

UNUEDO Foundation, has said that unless the unemployment rate in Edo State was not urgently addressed by the state government, the fight against rising incidents of kidnapping would not be fruitful.

If we go by Nigerian political precedents, there is considerable reason to doubt that former president Olusegun Obasanjo will go against the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan if he chooses to contest in 2015. But about two weeks ago Obasanjo had a private one-on-one discussion with Alhaji Rasheed Ladoja in Ibadan, and about two weeks after, a split occurred in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at a convention that was not attended by Obasanjo, who is now sponsporing Ladoja as a new secretary for PDP. These two events suggest some linkages.

As stakeholders of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, intensify efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the party, a founding father of the party, Chief Abu King Shuluwa, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to tame the duo of Chief Edwin Clark and Asari Dokubo from making inciting and inflammatory statements.

Expectedly, Nigerians, especially those whose cherished pastime is to pick holes in the activities of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, even where none exist, unsuccessfully tried to give unsavory interpretations to the federal cabinet reshuffle which resulted in the exit of nine serving ministers.

Former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Monday inaugurated the new presidential villa acquired, refurbished and furnished with N610 million by the Sokoto State Government.

Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has launched the revised version of the Nigeria Payment System (NPS) Vision 2020 Strategy Document.

An unidentified gunman opened fire at the US Navy Yard in Washington on Monday and wounded several people including two police officers, officials reported.