An FCT High Court on Wednesday issued a bench warrant for arrest of Babatunde Abisuga, former accountant in the Federal Civil Service Commission (FSSC), for failure to attend his trial.

OGUN State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, yesterday, faulted the state government’s reaction to comments by party leader and former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, on cost of roads construction and debt profile of the state.

A U.S. fighter jet dropped two fuel tanks near private houses in South Korea under the emergency situation, but no casualties have been reported, local media reported on Wednesday.

Stephen Keshi said his focus at the moment is his opening World Cup match against Iran.
Nigeria plays Bosnia-Herzegovina and Argentina, but most of the focus has been on the South American giants.

Golden Eaglets Coach and one time African Footballer of the Year Emmanuel Amuneke has warned the Super Eagles against showing too much respect to Argentina to the detriment of their other World Cup Group F foes.

As the world watched Abuba-kar Shekau’s video declaration of Allah’s instruction to him to sell the nearly 300 girls he kidnapped at midnight from their boarding school beds in Chibok, Borno State, something happened at last that had been long awaited: action, rather than platitudinous words of outrage.

The Super Eagles will not run short of funds when they will be campaigning in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazill.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week deducted from banks N111 billion as contributions to the Sinking Fund of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

BORNO State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, yesterday, said that the doubt in certain quarters on whether or not the Chibok school girls were actually abducted by Boko Haram insurgents and the theory that the kidnap was staged managed by his government was as painful as the actual abduction.

MURTALA Nyako, governor of Adamawa, one of three states which the cowardly but murderous insurgents in the north have virtually turned into the headquarters of their operations, is fast posing or acquiring reputation as an opponent of President Goodluck Jonathan.