6,000 flee B’Haram crisis to Niger – UN

No fewer than 6,000 people ,mostly women, children and elderly, displaced following the military onslaught against members of Islamist militant sects, Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru, have fled to neighbouring Niger Republic.

Awolowo, Tribune publisher, dies at 70

Publisher, African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, the publishers of the Tribune newspapers, Chief Oluwole Awolowo, died in a United Kingdom hospital on Wednesday at the age of 70.

Tension in Enugu as Chime fails to return.

There was anxiety in Enugu State on Monday as the lingering absence of Governor Sullivan Chime entered the New Year with his whereabouts still shrouded in secrecy.

Jonathan pays secret visit to wife in Germany.

President Goodluck Jonathan paid a secret visit to his sick wife, Patience, in Germany on Saturday.

A short news item aired on the Nigerian Television Authority at 9pm showed the President’s visit to his wife, who is reported to be sick of an undisclosed ailment in Germany.

Presidential subsidy committee members arraigned for bribery.

Four members of the Presidential Committee on Fuel Subsidy Verification, who allegedly received gratification from the Integrated Oil and Gas Ltd., on Wednesday appeared in court on three counts.

Lagos to unveil new education policy soon – Fashola.

The Lagos State Government will soon unveil a new policy framework for the education sector, from nursery to tertiary levels, Gov. Babatunde Fashola, has said.

Sharia court sentences two to amputation for theft.

An Islamic sharia court in  Zamfara State has sentenced two men to amputation of their right wrists for stealing a bull, with the amputation to be carried out in public if it is given final approval.

Police nab 2 over vandalisation of Oyo PDP office.

TWO members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, alleged to have masterminded Monday attack on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat in Oyo State, where five persons were injured, have been arrested by the police.

Crisis in judiciary pose economic danger.

Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, ICEN, has said that the crisis in Nigerian judiciary was “capable of jeopardising the efforts of government to improve the economic situation in the country,” especially at a time after revelations of the gory details of the botched privatisation exercise in the country.

New cabinet: Ezekwesili opts out.

AHEAD of next week’s expected submission of President Goodluck Jonathan’s list of ministerial nominees to the Senate, facts emerged, yesterday, that the former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili was said to have been contacted, but she was not too keen about leaving her World Bank job for Nigeria now.

Boy beats up mum, dies in sleep.

Homicide detectives have commenced investigations into the death of one Ngozi Onyii Onuneme from Ogiri, Isiala Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State.