Bauchi—As security agents intensified efforts to rescue the seven foreigners abducted from Bauchi State, hundreds of youths in Jama’re Local Government Area of the state, Wednesday, took to the streets to protest the non-release of the foreigners by their abductors.

LAST week Wednesday, the Oramiyan Hall of the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, was filled to the brim. The occasion was the launch of electronic product registration, (e-product) by Standards Organisation of Nigeria. The launch of the technology was a success as more than 250 manufacturing firms including importers from different sectors of the economy, immediately endorsed the database.

From his very first day at school, the Nigerian student realizes just how important first position is. The person who recites ABCs the best wins the teacher’s favour, and the best math student becomes head boy. The struggle to get into the higher institution is soon overtaken by the fight to graduate with a first class degree or a second class upper. Just when these ‘outstanding’ grades do nothing to stand them out in the world of work, many graduates troop to Post-graduate schools within and outside the country for the added advantage.

BENIN — THE crisis rocking the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, that led to the creation of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, has not been handled properly, the Secretary to Edo State Government, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, has said.

EMOTIONS and applauds were on displays yesterday as Pope Benedict XVI made final general appearance to 150,000 people who gathered at the St. Peter’s Square, to say “Grazie!” – “Thank you.” to the crowd toting banners with the same inscription.

National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to set up a high-powered Presidential Judicial Commission of Enquiry to investigate the cause of death, source and identity of the floating corpses discovered on Ezu River between Anambra and Enugu States.

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Chairman of Northern Governors Forum, has alleged clandestine plans by people close to the Presidency to enroll him into an imaginary conspiracy.

IT was another weekend of entertainment last week as theatre lovers in and around Lagos were held spell bound with plethora of performances that cut across a number of unconventional spaces in the city of Lagos during the Lagos theatre festival 2013.

LAST week launch of a debut novel, titled “Jacky The Hardworking Spider”, authored by Glory Osandatuwa, was to Nigerians, a strong indication that another Nobel Laureate may have been born in Nigeria, and this time, from Warri in Delta State.

African Development Bank has approved $400 million facility for Standard Charted Bank and Ecobank Transnational to boost trade in vital economic sectors such as agribusiness and manufacturing.