HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe may be forced to withdraw from the 2014 World Cup qualifying competition as the national football association has no money for a fixture in Egypt during March, a senior official told AFP on Thursday.

…Says “we should be talking about Hunger Haram not Boko Haram”
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, renowned social critic and former Lagos State Commissioner of Police in this interview spoke on the state of the nation and expectations for 2013. Excerpts:

The Police in Rivers State have arrested a man who allegedly butchered his wife at Ikata community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Mohammed Nndabawa, who disclosed this to newsmen in Port harcourt, said nine suspected cultists have also been arrested.

Senator Francis Okpozo has described as senseless and greedy, the appointment of Chief Tony Anenih as chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and called on Chief Anenih and former President Olusegun Obasanjo to quit politics for the younger generation.

Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to call the Islamic fundamentalists sect, Boko Haram to a round-table discussion so as to stop violence and blood-letting in the country.

The Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has, once again, been thrown into mourning follwing the death of its Yoruba actress, Miss Bisi Komolafe, in Ibadan.

Barely 24 hours after the re-election campaign posters of President Goodluck Jonathan hit Abuja, unknown persons have vandalised the publicity materials placed in strategic locations in the Federal Capital Territory as uproar greeted the mysterious appearance of the posters.

Unknown gunmen yesterday murdered a 26-year- old woman at Taraku in Gwer Local Government Area of Benue State while her one year baby boy is also battling for life after being inflicted with serious injuries by the attackers.

The Police in Lagos yesterday said efforts were still being made to recover the body of the 17-year-old son of a pastor who drowned Sunday, in Lekki Beach, Lagos.

Nigeria could join a handful of countries including China that would be pivotal in shaping the world’s economy by the year 2030 according to a report by the super secret United States National Intelligence Council, NIC.

Three persons allegedly involved in the recent kidnap of 82-year-old Mrs. Christiana Okere are currently telling operatives of Imo State Police what they knew about the crime.

The Ogun Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) yesterday said it had arrested two suspected pipeline vandals on Ajede Road in Ijebu East Local Government Area of the state.

Lagos State government yesterday recorded a low turn-out of civil servants who ought to resume en masse after the New Year Day celebration.

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, remanded two students, Bala Abubakar and Sambo Aminu, in prison over alleged possession of Indian hemp.

Two persons have been arrested by Imo Police Command for questioning in connection with the alleged sudden and unnatural death of a man in the swimming pool of Concorde Hotel, Owerri.