Nigerian Navy,yesterday, appointed new Flag Officers Commanding, FOC, for three of its operational commands in the country with the redeployment of other senior rear admirals, including its former Chief of Accounts and Budget and Chairman of the Military Pensions Board.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar, yesterday, assumed jurisdiction over the protracted legal tussle between Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and his predecessor, Chief Segun Oni, even as she ordered immediate service of hearing notice on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

A gang of dare devil hoodlums, suspected to be hired assassins, have murdered an international businessman, Mr. Kevin Ezekwem, in his Umuocha Awa country home in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State.

A PETROL station, Okozak, at Uzuakoli in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State has been gutted by fire which consumed goods and properties worth millions of naira.

NIGERIANS amaze President Goodluck Jonathan. They quickly accuse his administration of not delivering on his election promises. Where this does not stick, they alleged he is slow, so slow in addressing the country’s challenges.

AHEAD of tomorrow’s meeting of merger-seeking opposition parties in Abuja, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has accused the Federal Government of hatching plans to discredit and silence Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and other key opposition leaders involved in the ongoing plans to form a formidable platform to confront the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2015.

Nigeria’s foreign trade improved sharply in the second quarter of 2012 with $12 billion surplus occasioned by 42 per cent decline in imports. The surplus represents 43 per cent increase when compared with the surplus of N8.62 billion recorded in the second quarter of the year.

THE harmattan is at its peak and attendant diseases are in session. Ailments including infections whooping cough, pneumonia, common cold, malaria and asthma, are on the rise. The dry winds and dust are certainly not helping matters. However, there are simple, affordable home remedies with which to cope with these conditions.

Yenagoa—Speaker of Bayelsa House of Assembly, Mr. Konbowei Benson, Tuesday, said some aggrieved politicians were behind the plot to oust him from office.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said more could be done to reach out to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram to find out what leads it to carry out acts of violence.