DR. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, is a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, he speaks on his experience at the just concluded national conference, the politics in the country and the forth coming general elections.

Beijing on Thursday strongly denied a US congressional panel’s claim that Chinese government-linked hackers had launched dozens of cyberattacks on American defence contractors, saying the charges were “fabricated out of thin air”.

The Lagos State Government has sealed a commercial bank (name withheld), brothel and three houses and four shops in the state over environmental degradation.

Former chairman of Ikeja branch of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Monday Ubani, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to stop the execution of soldiers sentenced to death on Monday by the Army, through the power bestowed on him as Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces.

CALABAR—Three persons were burnt to death, yesterday afternoon, when two tankers laden with petroleum products crashed into one another at the 146 Army Battalion gate, popularly called Welcome to Calabar, in the outskirts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

ENUGU—The Nigeria Immigration Service, Enugu State Command, yesterday, said it nabbed one Mr. Koffi Hassan, a Sierra Leonean, who specialises in trafficking women out of Nigeria for prostitution.

PORT HARCOURT— RIVERS State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, yesterday, said schools in the state may not resume the same time with those in other states because of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

THE Chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation Committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has berated Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, for blaming the security challenges bedevilling the North Eastern part of the country on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying terrorism was a global phenomenon.

Thailand’s junta chief apologised Thursday for suggesting tourists in bikinis could be more vulnerable to attack, comments which caused an international outcry following the brutal murder of two British holidaymakers.

EKITI State Government and governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, yesterday, traded words over alleged diversion of workers’ salaries to pay government contractors.