Suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi has again stirred the hornet’s nest as he declared yesterday that kerosine subsidy is a big scam operated by a cabal in government. Mallam Sanusi in an interview with New York Times yesterday also alleged that the money claimed for the subsidy was being used to finance election.

IBADAN— THREE persons, including a 92-year-old man, were burnt to death yesterday, when fire razed a church Mercyland Prayer Ministries at Idi Aro, Ibadan. Four others, including a pregnant woman, escaped death in the fire that started at 1:45am.

ABUJA—THE United Nations Education and Scientific Fund, UNICEF, yesterday, expressed its concern over the recent killing of children in the North Eastern part of the country by suspected Boko Haram members, saying it intends to embark on a verification exercise of the region to access the situation on ground.

CEMENT producers in the country, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to continue to support and protect the local industry from unfair competition, saying the industry is still at investments stage.”

Anambra State government vowed, yesterday, to ensure petrol was sold at the official rate of N97 per litre.

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has admitted he faces a selection headache ahead of the World Cup, but adds he is happy it is so.

STAKEHOLDERS in the educational sector in Lagos have called on governor, Babatunde Fashola to save the lives of pupils in public schools from incessant but avoidable accidents in public schools by designing measures that would help improve the security of life in the schools

At least 2,650 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and Labour Party in Ogun State have dumped their parties for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr. Peter Ameh, has described as unfair the domination of the forthcoming National Conference by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and four other political parties.

An Osun State high court sitting in Osogbo yesterday fixed Friday, March 21, 2014 for further hearing on the trial of Richard Abayomi Adesanmi, the star witness in the case of bomb explosion at the premises of the Osun State Ministry of Water Resources in June 2007.