Egypt’s top court Thursday ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera reporters whose imprisonment on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood triggered global outrage, but kept them in custody pending a new hearing.

On this first day of the New Year, I want to pay special tribute to the gallant officers, men and women of our Armed Forces and other security agencies who have been in the forefront of the war against terrorism and violent extremism in our country and sub-region.

Despite the downturn in the nation’s economy necessitating some austerity measures, the State House will spend N6.5 billion for its operations this year.

EBOLA was always a distant issue to Nigerians. Discovered in 1976 at Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo, now Zaire, it was named after Ebola River, in order not to stigmatise Yambuku which is 100 kilometres from the river. Outbreaks of the highly fatal Ebola have been around Zaire, Gabon, Uganda, Congo, South Africa, Sudan and Cote d’Ivoire.

CITY dwellers will probably find it easy to judge the governor; all they need do is compare the state of their area when the governor came in, and now. For those in the non-pressure parts of Lagos State, like Epe, Badagry, Agbowa-Ikosi, Ikorodu, and other outliers, they would be right in singing the praises of the governor, yet, others like Mowo, Agbara, Ajangbadi, Ikoga and others might not have much to sing about. However, development is not about roads alone; which states have been building since the Roman Empire.

As political parties kicked off campaigns for next month’s general elections in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan talked tough yesterday, saying his administration will not tolerate the kind of orgy of violence that trailed the 2011 elections in the forth-coming elections.
forth-coming elections.

Current National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and his predecessor, Bamanga Tukur, last night pleaded with Nigerians to prove to the world that Nigeria can conduct a peaceful election.

ABUJA—MEMBERS of the National Assembly, yesterday, picked holes in President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that members of the House of Representatives collected loans to purchase exotic cars and that he would not allow the National Assembly to go ahead with its purchase of cars worth N50 billion naira as being proposed.

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THE Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has called on the people of Warri and all Nigerians to rededicate their lives to the service of God and mankind.

The 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, yesterday, announced a two-day restriction of vehicular movements in Maiduguri and environs during the New Year and Eid-El-Maulud celebrations.

CHAIRMAN, Nigerian Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Professor Chidi Odinkalu has said the corporate existence of Nigeria depends on the choice make by Nigerians, especially on the general election.

ADO EKITI—The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has reacted to the purported passage of the state budget by the suspended seven members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the House of Assembly, dismissing it as illegal and exercise in futility.

IN 2006, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Dr Charles Soludo, gave a lecture in Kaduna in which he disclosed that poverty was “a Northern phenomenon”. He also said that Jigawa State was the poorest state in the North, and by extension the poorest in Nigeria.

IT was an uncommon vision by its leadership that propelled the once laidback state into a physical turnaround that has made its capital city the toast of many Nigerians. Uyo, the capital city of Akwa Ibom State, today, boasts of not just some of the best designed roads in the country, but also, a landscape that was transformed within the shortest possible time.