I DO not need to recount the recent Immigration Service recruitment fiasco here. The horrors are still fresh, the insensitivity of the Interior Minister—self-styled ‘Comrade’ Abba Moro—continues to rankle; so does the indecent attempt by the opposition to build political capital out of the unfortunate affair.

The Joint Association of People Living With Disability in Gombe State says it will soon embark on a campaign to sensitise its members to the dangers of street begging .

The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, on NIS recruitment aimed at achieving transparency, efficiency, says Minister Thursday said that the decision of the ministry to engage a consultant for its recruitment exercise was in accordance with legal workings of government.

PRETORIA (AFP) – The judge overseeing Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial on Friday adjourned the case for more than a week — just before the star Paralympian was expected to take the stand for the first time — because a senior court official was sick. “One of my assessors is not well,” said Judge Thokozile Masipa. […]

Spain will face Italy for a berth in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup final after the Europeans saw off Nigeria with a dominant 3-0 win, led by Patri Guijarro’s double.

NIGERIA cannot survive on half implemented policies. The foresights on which the planning of the country were based at independence have been jettisoned for measures that sustain impressions that the country does not have a future. A simple example is the infrastructure used in distributing fuel, when it is available.

THE Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has vowed to do a thorough investigation into the crimes committed by suspected kidnappers at Soka in Ibadan, where hundreds of victims had been tortured or killed.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has again dismissed insinuations that he had endorsed a candidate for 2015 governorship election in the state.

Fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the Presidency called for a meeting of the National Economic Council meeting, NEC, which was held in Abuja yesterday after shying away from holding the meeting for nine months.

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force, Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, have arrested two suspected vandals believed to be responsible for last Thursday’s explosion that led to fire outbreak at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipeline in Ilare/Imagbon area of Ikorodu, Lagos, which left some of the vandals dead.

UMBRELLA body of Christians in the country, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has rejected the proposal to establish grazing reserves across the country as a means of resolving the protracted fracas between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in various parts of the country which has resulted in thousands of deaths and destruction of farmlands

CATHOLIC Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rt. Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah, yesterday, blamed the increasing wave of insurgency in the country on what he described as conspiracy of silence and break down of societal surveillance.

Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi has vowed to kick out any Eagles player who contravenes camp rules during Nigeria’s forthcoming campaign at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Nigeria Football Federation’s tense working relationship with coach Stephen Keshi looks set to continue.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, suspended the Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice P. N. C. Agumagu, from office, and directed that he should, within four days, explain in writing why he should not be sacked as a judicial officer.