The Nigerian Army on Tuesday declared that it has commenced investigations into  the  killing of some members of a youths’ vigilance group called Civilian JTF by suspected Boko Haram militants in Monguno, Borno.

Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, Nokia collapsed into the arms of the U.S. software giant, agreeing to sell its main handset business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).

NIGER Delta Ex-militants Phase II leaders Tuesday, issued a one month ultimatum to the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku to release unpaid allowances to members of the various camps in the phase or risk another round of crisis in the region.

Governor Chibuike Amaechi said he was not aware of the outcome of the meeting some governors in the newly formed faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had with President Goodluck Jonathan.

Leading figures and experts including African heads of states, farmers and business leaders, are already in Maputo, Mozambique to attend the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) which opens tomorrow.

A GREEK proverb warns: “don’t hear one and judge two”. This sensible aphorism would appear to have been ignored by Mr. Femi Aribisala in his article of August 21, 2013, in which he bitterly assailed the contribution, character and person of the late Chief R.A. Fani-Kayode in the following terms : “….Like father, like son: That was 48 years ago.

Osun state’s chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday declared that the factional national secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, was on his own, stressing that his position did not represent that of the party in the state.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman arrived back in Pyongyang Tuesday, Chinese state media reported, after he said he was going to see his “friend” North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, whose regime has jailed a US citizen.

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents ambushed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Tuesday, the militants said, claiming to have destroyed vehicles with rocket-propelled grenades.
“We ambushed a convoy that was escorting the self-appointed Somali president,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.

The Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, said it was seeking prospective investors to buy 100 percent of its share-holding in Enterprise Bank, the first of Nigeria’s three nationalised lenders to be put up for sale.

WITH only some 50 years of independent national existence, Nigeria is a country reeking with “new money.” The overwhelming proportion of the millionaires and billionaires in the country are “nouveau-riche;” they became rich literally “overnight.” We are talking of people whose wealth does not go beyond a generation.

A 46-year-old Pastor, Olamide Sobowale, of Glory Church of Christ Aladura, Oke-Itoku, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been ordered to be remanded in prison for allegedly raping a woman while bathing in his church backyard.

Everyman has the right to decide his own destiny, and in this judgement there is no partiality. – Bob Marley, from lyrics of Zimbabwe, a song, and an album dedicated to Zimbabwe at independence in April 1980

ON Friday, August 30, 2013 Otunba Michael Subomi Balogun had a media chat with select journalists in his porch house at 1, Milverton Road, Ikoyi. The chat was centered on “FCMB at 30: a reflection from the founder.” Otunba Subomi, in a very relaxed form said “I am not a pharisee of real life experience, my journey to what you now see had been divinely guided.

Rivers State Police Command, has declared the ADC to the state governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, ASP Seimeikumo Debewari as a deserter.