Zimbabwean former vice president Joice Mujuru launched a new political party Tuesday in a direct challenge to veteran President Robert Mugabe’s all-powerful ZANU-PF, as speculation increases over his succession.

Three students, two girls and a boy were last night abducted by gun wielding men in the all boarding Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, BMJS, a secondary and a higher school certificate institution run by the Anglican Church of Nigeria in Agunfoye Lugbusi‎, near Ikorodu, Lagos State.

Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Jabi, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to forthwith, release the detained former Aide de Camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, on bail.

Some candidates of the on-going Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, said aside the lateness in starting the examination, a bigger challenge was with the English Language paper as answers to some of the questions were not made available.

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a landmark judgment has held that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.”

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and sports kits manufacturing company NIKE have concluded arrangements to redesign the national team jerseys, Mohammed Sanusi, the NFF General Secretary, said on Monday.

ABOUT a week ago, I published the first part of a series of essays focused on the grave and crippling challenges facing the Nigerian economy. I must say that I was surprised but gratified at the positive feedback received, and by the interest generated from diverse stakeholders, both at home and abroad.

AUDITOR – General of the Federation,Samuel Ukura, yesterday,made a startling revelation on how contractors, who handled various projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission,NDDC, between 2008 and 2012, disappeared with N70 billion mobilization fees without going to site let alone , executing the projects.

The office of Assistant Inspector General of police zone 1 Tuesday morning flown the Bayelsa born teenager, Miss Ese Oruru and her lover boy, Yunusa to Abuja.

The British Council has offered to assist Nigeria in training the 500,000 teachers to be employed by the federal government.

The Bayelsa-born teenager, Miss Ese Oruru and her alleged abductor, Yunusa have been flown Abuja, Tuesday morning.The Bayelsa-born teenager, Miss Ese Oruru and her alleged abductor, Yunusa were Tuesday morning, flown to Abuja by the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 1.

The presidency has said that president Muhammadu Buhari never at any point during his 2015 presidential campaign made a promise of paying N5, 000 monthly stipend to the unemployed graduates in the country.

NIGERIAN Female Bikers Club, otherwise known as Amazon Motorcycle Club is planning a tour of five African countries by road to celebrate the 2016 International Women’s Day. The five countries tour which kicks off on March 4, 2016 from Lagos will see the female bikers travel from Nigeria through Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast to attend the International Women’s Day in Ivory Coast on the 8 of March, 2016.

The Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Anambra, Chief Chris Eluemuno, has said that the organisation is bound to support President Mohammadu Buhari in the interest of the Igbo.

The 14 years old Ese Rita Oruru, who was abducted by one Yinusa, alias Yelllow, from her mother’s shop in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, August 12, 2015, and whisked to Kano State, has been rescued.