A FRESH attempt to bomb some parts of Jos was foiled, yesterday, after the Special Task Force which is maintaining security in Jos intercepted a group of people who were trying to plant an explosive in Nasarawa Gwom area even as the death toll in the Christmas Eve multiple bomb explosions has risen to 80

BARELY a week after 20 persons were roasted to death at Asaba along Benin-Asaba highway, a similar motor accident has occurred at Emuhu village near Umunede on the same highway. This time it claimed no fewer than 22 lives including university students.

Disability is not a sickness, I am not ashamed to sit on this wheelchair to address this great audience. Nigerians should not relegate us to the background because persons with disabilities can live a productive life. Parents should not abandon children with disabilities because there is hope for them.’‘

THERE was palpable tension in the Plateau State capital, yesterday, as angry youths carried out reprisal attacks in some parts of Jos setting houses ablaze and molesting people over the Christmas eve blasts in two locations which claimed 32 lives and hospitalisation of 74 others.

PRESIDENTIAL aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), says his party has an elaborate plan to construct mini-power stations across the country targeting abundant coal deposits in Enugu, Benue, Kogi and other parts of the country.

TENSION, yesterday, enveloped Jos, Plateau State capital where 32 people have been confirmed dead and 74 others hospitalised following multiple blasts which rocked the metropolis on Christmas eve.

The government of Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday a threat of force by West African leaders calling for him to step down after last month’s disputed election was “unjust.”

Residents of Jos spent the Christmas eve in fear after two devices went off almost simultaneously in different parts of the city last night.Time was 7:30 pm. Some people were feared dead but the exact number could not be immediately ascertained.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it would tackle the issue of unemployment and restiveness among Nigerian youths if voted into power in 2011.

NEW YORK—PRESIDENT Barack Obama has placed a phone call to President Goodluck Jonathan, congratulating him over Nigeria’s leadership role in handling the political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire.

IKEMBA Nnewi and Commander-in-Chief of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was admitted at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu, following a cerebra-vascular accident, otherwise called stroke, Sunday, was yesterday flown to London, the United Kingdom aboard a German Air Ambulance.

THE Ikemba Nnewi and Commander-in-Chief of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was admitted at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH Enugu following a cerebra-vascular accident otherwise called stroke last Sunday, was today flown to London, the United Kingdom aboard a German Air Ambulance.

Bayelsa State government has agreed to labour demand for N30, 000 Christmas bonus for workers in its employ.

THE Senate, yesterday, threatened not to approve the 2011Appropriation Bill unless Government agencies and parastatals that generate revenue submit their budget proposals to the National Assembly
Senate President, David Mark, who was reiterating an earlier statement by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, warned that the budget would not be passed by the Senate unless agencies like Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA; the Nigeria Custom Service and Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS; amongst others submit their budget proposals to the National Assembly.

FOLLOWING the exit of three Ministers so far from the Federal Executive Counci, FEC, in the last one week, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the redeployment of two Ministers.