The Nigerian Army yesterday arraigned one of its generals, Brigadier-General Muraina Raji, former Commander, 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi before a Special Court Martial over the escape of two suspected members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram from the Brigade’s detention facilities.

The embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, yesterday, went before a Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge his indictment by the National Judicial Council, NJC, insisting that the verdict was not only perverse and unreasonable, but also violated his fundamental rights to fair hearing as guaranteed under Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Right.

NOTWITHSTANDING the spate of criticisms that greeted the plan by the presidency to send a bill containing a single term proposal for president and governors to the National Assembly, it emerged, yesterday, that President Goodluck Jonathan is not about to jettison the plan.

THE Senate adhoc committee investigating the activities of Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, from 1999 till date was told yesterday that the rift between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice, Atiku Abubakar, frustrated the privatisation exercise, especially the sale of Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria, ALSCON.

AS the Senate Probe into the activities of Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE entered its fifth day yesterday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was again accused of singlehandedly approving the concession of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex to Global Infrastructure Limited against due process.