Malaysia said Monday there is still no trace of wreckage from a jet that vanished with 239 people on board, deepening the anguish of relatives two days after the “mystifying” disappearance.

South Africa said Monday it will ask Mozambican authorities to investigate reports of sexual abuse of its female nationals held in the neighbouring country’s jails.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has reiterated his earlier position that elected public officers on the platform of the People Democratic Party, PDP, from the state, including members of the National Assembly, who have served more than a tenure should give way for fresh candidates to emerge in 2015.

The Federal Government has been urged to put measures in place to check pilfering of cargoes and luggage at airports and seaports in Nigeria.

A chieftain of Labour Party, LP, in Osun State, Mr. Tunji Oyelade, who was last week shot in his house in Inisa, a town in Odo Otin Local Government Area by unknown gunmen, died at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, weekend.

FROM time to time, things happen and provide us the platform to interrogate Nigeria’s chequered history and relive its bitter impact on one section or the other of the country. When, about a year ago, Professor Chinua Achebe joined his ancestors, the system virtually exploded. His views in his last book: There Was a Country, portrayed Achebe’s views about the ways the nation handled the events before, during and after the Biafra/Nigeria war. It became an occasion to reopen an old wound, which, to our shock, we discovered was still sore and suppurating rather than healed even after forty three years.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has requested the Federal Government to make public what it expended on the centenary celebration

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board, has advised the Federal Government to take strong action to address oil theft and production losses.

EIGHTEEN governors under the aegis of Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, yesterday, took a critical appraisal of the security situation in the country with the Boko Haram killing and maiming of innocent people almost on a daily basis in the North Eastern part of the country unchallenged.

The decision of the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, to sue the Federal Government over what he described as illegal deduction of one per cent from statutory allocation to states in the federation, may not be a surprise to many Nigerians.

APAPA /OSHODI expressway has literally been shutdown since Friday with yesterday being the most agonizing for motorists. The shutdown was caused by tankers and trailers that seized the major economic artery of the country. All law enforcement agencies pleaded helplessness yesterday with the policemen disappearing from the roads completely leaving trapped  motorists at the mercy of thieves.

Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande has condemned the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC for what he described as inefficiency and electoral manipulation ahead of the 2015 general election

Fortuna Dusseldorf and new Super Eagles right back, Leon Balogun, will after all not undergo surgery on his injured right foot, German medics ruled at the weekend.

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, urged the Auditor General of the Federation, AGF, to publish the periodic checks of the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, carried out by his staff to shed more light on the alleged missing money.

Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, weekend, criticised the convocation of a National Dialogue by President Jonathan saying it is a distraction and mere waste of time and resources.