CENTRAL Bank governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi was unmoved by the seeming intimidation of senior officials of the House of Representatives, yesterday, as he stood his ground that burgeoning overhead of the National Assembly was a threat to economic growth.

FORMER Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, is to wait till 2012 to append the SAN title after his name, as the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee ,LPPC, yesterday, shortened his indefinite suspension from the Nigerian Inner Bar to just two years.

THE Nigeria’s rebranding campaign being championed by the Minister of Information and Communication, Professor Dora Akunyili was on Monday taken to the doorsteps of lawyers and the judiciary with a call on them to submit themselves to the principles of the rebranding project.

THE United Nations, UN, is sending a six-man team to Nigeria to inspect the arms shipped in 13 containers from Iran and intercepted last month in Apapa port, Lagos. This followed a formal complaint lodged before the United Nations by the Federal Government.

Former military Head of State and the losing contender to the candidate of the Northern elders forum in the consensus arrangement, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday expressed disaffection over claims making the rounds that he had jettisoned the option to run the 2011 elections.

SURVIVORS of the December 1 invasion of Ayakoromor community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, code-named Operation Restore Hope, yesterday, gave chilling details of how they escaped death, their kinsmen killed and homes razed.

This report attempts to clear the fog concerning the allocations to members of the National Assembly and the needless controversy over what constitutes the percentage of the overhead to national assembly members.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is facing a fresh challenge in its preparation for next year’s elections after a Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday restrained it from awarding contract for the importation of the Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines or any other equipment ancillary to, or associated with the process and application of the machines for the registration of voters.

IT was a harvest of deaths yesterday in Lagos, Ogun and Akwa Ibom states as no fewer than 30 persons were burnt to death in auto accidents involving petrol tankers. In Lagos, more than 20 people were burnt in their vehicles around Alakija area of Mile 2 on the Lagos-Badagry expressway when an oil tanker fell and spilled its contents on the Lagos-Badagry expressway.

FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has described last Tuesday’s judgment as a great victory for honesty and integrity and a rebuke against arbitrariness and impunity.