FEDERAL Government, yesterday, announced a new gas pricing regime for the industrial sector, with a view to revamping and boosting indigenous manufacturing capacity.

THE decision of former President Ibrahim Babangida, former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to contest the 2011 presidential election is not enjoying the full backing of the North as a northern based group, Arewa Progressive Union, APU, is said to be mobilising the entire North against these leaders who they described as ‘expired leaders’.

One of Nigeria’s most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl 37.

ATTORNEY General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, yesterday, said he could not prosecute former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida because there was no white paper on the Okigbo Report.

A REPORT published by an international news agency, Reuters, quoting a Presidency source as having declared that President Goodluck Jonathan was considering not contesting the presidential elections due next January may have unsettled the Presidency, yesterday, as the government immediately reacted saying President Jonathan was yet to make a commitment.