The United NationsBuilding in Abuja came under a massive bomb attack when a suicide bomber rammed the building with his car, yesterday morning, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 40.

The Presidency yesterday took a swipe at critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over his role in the removal of the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, and dismissed such critics as self serving.

THE Federal Government plans to remove subsidy in petroleum products, cut recurrent spending; the overhead cost of running government in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), to reduce the budget deficit to a manageable level of three per cent of output while boosting infrastructure investment to create jobs.

The suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, yesterday, dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, praying the court to declare the appointment of an acting President of the Court of Appeal, by the President as illegal and unconstitutional.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday came hard on President Goodluck Jonathan saying he has failed to follow due process and observe the rule of law over his endorsement of the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC, suspending the President of Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami from office over his feud with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.

The crisis rocking the nation’s judiciary following the feud between the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami reached its climax Sunday as President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Justice Dalhatu Adamu as acting President of the Court, pending the resolution of all issues relating to the crisis.

The last may not have been heard about the feud between former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the former insisted that it is now an eye for an eye with the latter. Babangida said he would no longer sit idly and watch Obasanjo throw darts at him.

The embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, yesterday, approached a Federal High Court in Abuja for an order setting aside his suspension by the National Judicial Council, NJC.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military President Ibrahim Babangida yesterday descended from the platform of statesmen into an acrimonious mutual war of words, accusing each other of foolery.

Former Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who was sworn-in yesterday by President Goodluck Jonathan as the Minister of Finance declared that her main priority as she resumed duties was to create jobs which was a key component of the president’s transformation agenda.

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.