THE face-off between the A.I.C Hotels Limited and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, yesterday, took a new twist as FAAN pulled down the fence on the disputed land between it and hotel.

Taraba State governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai’s meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan might have ended on a deadlock.

The violence that erupted last Sunday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State following the shooting of Senator Magnus Abe, spread to his constituency in the Ogoni part of the state, yesterday morning. His kinsmen took to the streets, damaging vehicles and disrupting traffic. Senator Abe, was on Sunday, wounded by alleged rubber bullet the state government said was fired by members of the Nigeria Police, who had gone to disperse supporters of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state from holding a rally.

An appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, seven days to arraign in court, Dr. Mohammed Nazeef Yunus, a lecturer at the Kogi State University, Ayingba, and five others arrested by the Department of State Service, DSS, following their alleged involvement with the Boko Haram sect.