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Nineteen Traffic Marshals, working for the Gombe State government on Tuesday sustained various degrees of injuries in clashes with a group of policemen in Gombe.

MAKURDI— The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the crisis rocking the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, “as God’s divine intervention to liberate the ordinary Nigerian from years of deprivation, repression and maladministration by a class that has held Nigerians captive.”

Asaba—Tracking down the bandits involved in the bank raid in Issele-Uku, Delta State, recently, has been a herculean task for the state police command as the intensive manhunt to apprehend the fleeing thieves has remained a mirage.

OVER the past few months, governments across the country have been giving out cheques to victims of the political riots that followed the results of the 2011 presidential election.

Jonathan’s performance rating soared to 57 per cent last month, according to NOI Polls, citing results of its monthly opinion polls on President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, yesterday, said it will resist pressure to devalue the naira since it retains ample funds to defend the currency.

Group Managing Director (GMD)of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede has said that the bank will be shifting its focus to the SME sector as it targets about one million mobile phone customers in the next 12 months.

One-time spokesman of the House of Representatives and currently Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga weekend spoke with selected journalists on various national issues.

FOR the umpteenth time a people living in darkness have been promised that gloom will give way to light by December 2013. Ordinarily, the pledge would have elicited unrivaled enthusiasm across the country, given that light would finally shine in a land overshadowed by darkness, but the reverse is the case.

Authorities of the Nigerian Army have issued ten Major Generals letters of retirement from the force with immediate effect, with some of them expected to proceed on retirement by December this year while some have already gone.

After a dull Monday afternoon, the Super Eagles camp at the Transcorp Metropolitan Hotel came alive on Tuesday afternoon with almost all the top actors already in town, though only 12 of them trained in the evening session at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, cleared the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to freeze the illicit property of two of the prime suspects in the looting of the Police Pension fund to the tune of about N33 billion.

IF those that wanted to snuff life out of the philanthropic and amiable popular transporter and Chairman of Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, had succeeded, his last words on earth could have been the wild exclamation which he uttered as soon as the hoodlums started firing volleys of bullets into his car, penultimate Tuesday.

Commissioner for Insurance, Mr. Fola Daniel has decried the persistence of low level financial literacy in Nigeria and some other African countries which is the cause of low insurance penetration in such places.