LAGOS— Minister of Defence, Muhammad Dan-Ali, yesterday described as untrue, reports that the 24 Mine Resistant Armour Protected Vehicles, MRAP,s donated by the United States of America to help Nigeria in the fight against insurgency cost the receiving country $11 million to transport here.

THE controversy surrounding the attack and looting of Delta Shopping Mall (Shoprite) on January 8, 2016, has taken a new turn, following a police report linking the suspended Chairman of Uvwie Local Government Area, Mr Henry Baro and Chairman of Effurun Central Motor Park, Mr Napoleon Odibu, to the incident.

ABUJA — National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party has no intention of transforning Nigeria into a one-party state.

It was the first public gathering and appearance of the APC leaders in Akwa Ibom State since the Appeal Court judgment of last December nullifying the election of the PDP governor of the state, Governor Udom Emmanuel.

SOUTH Korea based artificial intelligence researcher, Ms. Mira Kwak has said that Nigeria has the capacity to become a leading country in Information and Communication Technology. Kwak said this at the premiere edition of the Nigeria ICT fest held in Lagos recently.

I WELCOME the controversy over President Buhari’sexplanation ofthe re-arrest and continued detention ofColonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), President Jonathan’s political ATM-machinewho went by the formal title of National Security adviser. If nothing else, it offers us the opportunity to ensure that the hallowed concept of rule of law will not become the refuge of scoundrels, of treasury looters whose kleptomania has the nation reeling from the mortal blows of grinding poverty, gross underdevelopment and threats to its corporate integrity. The president raised hackles when he said that Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu (leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra)have not been released,despite subsisting courts orders granting them bail, because given “the kinds of atrocities” they have “committed against the country, if they are given the opportunity, they will jump bail.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the state’s 2016 budget as a budget of misappropriation, saying that the state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, appropriated N10.65 billion, representing 9.6 per cent of the total budget of N111.50 billion to his office as against the N35 million allocated to the office of his deputy.

Believe it or not, I am a virgin at the age of25. My problem now is that my boss and her daughter are both trying to get me into bed. After I finished at the Law School, my mum arranged for me to work in her friend’s chambers to gain experience.

Amkar Perm midfielder Fegor Ogude has disclosed that he beat down the price asked by abductors and paid only 1.3 million naira as ransom for the release of his wife from kidnappers.

As concerns grow among his party leaders and supporters for his release from week-long detention, the embattled spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, reportedly ran into a fresh trouble with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for tearing his voluntary statement to the commission.