Analysts at BGL have warned that the continuous decline in the prices of crude oil in the international market will trigger a double-digit inflation in Nigeria in the first half of 2015, among other negative consequences.

MITT Romney has become a spectacle in U.S. politics. Twice he has made a bid for the coveted position of presidency, and twice have voters blocked his route to the White House. After the last attempt, Romney and his wife swore that running for the presidency was no longer on their political agenda. But of late, Romney has been crisscrossing the United States, waving the banner that indicates that he is once more serious about getting into the presidential race. Generally, American presidential elections do not bestow favours on previous losers in the same race. One of the exceptions was Richard Nixon who lost to J.F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential polls, but bounced back to become the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. He had to bow out in shame over the infamous Watergate scandal which showed that he had subverted the integrity of the presidency.

LAGOS—There was pandemonium yesterday at All Progressive Congress, APC, rally for its candidates in Gbagada axis of Lagos, as political thugs clashed at the venue, injuring two persons.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, in Sokoto described those calling him enemy of the North, as liars who have nothing to offer the region.

The Federal Government has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, to reconnect troubled Borno State to the national grid.

The Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to the Indonesian government to show clemency for 12 Nigerians convicted of drug crimes in that country.

SINCE 1999, Benue State has been a core PDP state. The people always cast their vote en mass in all elections for the largest political party in Africa. Indeed it was in recognition of this that Benue State had produced two national chairmen of PDP and other sensitive positions in the party’s apparatchik.

PRESIDENTIAL Campaign Organisation of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, faulted explanation by presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, on the alleged certificate scam.

Hundreds of thousands of unruly youths from strongholds of the All Peoples Congress, APC, in Kaduna State yesterday shut down most major streets in the northern parts of Kaduna metropolis, in a frenzy of support for the APC Presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, as they awaited his visit

Last week, the shares of Presco Plc, UAC of Nigeria Plc, Cutix Plc, Beta Glass Company (Nig.) Plc, Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN Plc and Custodian and Allied Plc enjoyed unalloyed patronage from the investing public, thereby emerging the most active stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, in terms of price movement.