Leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has appointed a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Aniebonam as Chairman of Biafra Independent National Electoral Commission, B-INEC.

President, Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria and Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, THISDAY Newspapers Group Mr Nduka Obaigbena yesterday wrote the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to further clarify the payments of N670 million compensation to Thisday newspapers and members of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, following Boko Haram attack on Thisday office and confiscation of copies of newspapers and circulation vans of newspaper houses.

MALLAM Audu used to have a kiosk as you crossed from Moremi Hall to Awolowo Hall in Ife in those days. We bought little items from from the wares he displayed close to the health centre. After payment was made, Audu was usually not so quick with giving out the change, so, we would yell at him in our smattering knowledge of the Hausa Language: “Mallam,bani Changi!

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, yesterday, teamed up with other eminent Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a robust defence after the president came under criticisms for insisting that the Federal Government would not release former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), and the founder of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, despite several court directives to that effect.

All Progressives Congress APC, in Osun State has urged the citizens of the state to observe a three-day special fasting and praying period from tomorrow, January 6 to Friday, January 8, 2016.

MOTORISTS have decried the incessant harassment and impounding of their vehicles on major highways across the country by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS).

Bothered by his state of health, three weeks after his arrest and subsequent detention, by the Nigerian Army, members of the Islamic sect, Shiite, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to tell Nigerians the whereabout of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife.

Hauwa Maishara, a 35-year-old mother of four, is one of the internally displaced persons, IDPs, who moved to the IDPs camp in Dalori, Maiduguri, the Borno State capital when Boko Haram insurgents made her home very close to Potiskum almost uninhabitable.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has kicked against the suggestion by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, that the nation’s four refineries be sold as scrap, saying it is a fraudulent way of ripping the country off its national assets.

THE Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Aba branch, Abia State, has condemned the non-payment of salaries by the Okezie Ikpeazu’s administration to the recalled non-indgene workers in Abia State, who the last administration disengaged.

Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung yesterday came face to face with the rot, neglect and abandonment that surmised the derelict state of facilities under his commission, scattered all over Lagos.

In what has become an annual ritual for the past 35 years, Rotary Club of Ikeja spent the early hours of Christmas day with patients at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH and Ikeja. General Hospital. Members of the group danced as they distributed gifts to patients at various wards as part of their humanitarian efforts to bring succour to the sick who were forced to celebrate Christmas at the hospitals.

Teachers in public primary and Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) in Kwara state yesterday carried out their threat to go on strike despite pleas from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

AGAINST the backdrop of a very difficult year in which the construction industry witnessed several abandoned or uncompleted projects, job losses and huge debts owed contractors for projects already completed, built environment experts have called on the Federal Government to pump enough money into the fledging sector in view of its multiplier effect on other sectors.

APPREHENSION has gripped students of Delta State University, Oleh campus, following the withdrawal of the accreditation of the institution’s Faculty of Law by the Nigeria University Commission, NUC.