ABUJA—A Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, slated February 11 to determine whether six alleged kingpins of the Boko Haram sect in Niger State, have a case to answer regarding the explosion that rocked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Suleja, prior to the April 16, 2011, presidential election.

Members of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO Scientific Advisory Board on Tuesday at the inaugural meeting of the Board elected Prof. Bartho. N. Okolo, Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Nsukka as its chairman for the next four years.

Not too long ago the two men and their proxies were at each other’s throats. Now, a confidant of Atiku Abubakar, is claiming that the former vice-president and his one time number one foe, Olusegun Obasanjo are now the best of friends.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, yesterday, said it has commenced investigation into the reported assault and torture of a 10-year-old boy, Stephen Ogbeun, by his father.

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, formally began trial of Mamman Nasir Ali, son of Ahmadu Ali, a former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman and three others, with the prosecution witness, Victor Sanusi, denying knowing the three defendants in the case.

LAGOS—Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pledged to continue doing good so long as he had the breadth of God in him and capacity to do so.

CONCERNS about Nigeria’s porous borders have turned into regular complaints and occasional triumphant announcements of supposed conquest of the challenges. Neither is acceptable in the contexts of the importance of secured borders to Nigeria’s interests.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said he had no regrets whatsoever for the spate of demolition of buildings in the city during his tenure as minister, which left many families stranded and unable to regain their balance till date.

Mallam Idris Yusuf, a security man attached to the AIT/Raypower station in Bauchi, never saw death coming. Not even when he felt compelled to confront and arrest an armed robber he encountered on the way. As a security guard, he felt duty-bound to protect lives and property whenever the situation called for it. Unfortunately his bold effort in this regard ended tragically as he was shot dead by a member of a robbery gang he tried to apprehend recently.

A Nigerian, based in South Africa, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA with 6.100kg substance suspected to be cocaine ,at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.