IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.

MINISTER of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godsday Orubebe, weekend, explained that the reason why leaders of the South South had resolved to support President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 presidential election was to fulfill the will of God.

FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, has stated that General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) remains the only credible presidential candidate in Nigeria just as he argued that the 2011 general elections will be a race between Buhari and whoever becomes the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate.

AS Nigerians await the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan on the forthcoming elections, Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, weekend, said President Jonathan will contest the presidency in 2011.

AFTER almost three years of pursuit, Nigeria yesterday attained US Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, Category 1 certification, which the American government described as a major milestone for the country.

A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Danladi Auyo, has described former military president, Ibrahim Babangida as a PDP asset for capturing the 2011 President election. He said if PDP failed to use him, it will mark the failure and the end of most popular party in Africa.

As Nigerians in the Diaspora mobilise funds for the completion of the late Dr Nnamdi Azikwe’s Mausoleum, some of them have called for probe of the contractors who have handled the job for the past 14 years

Enugu State government said yesterday a member of the State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Maduabum, who died last Tuesday from injuries sustained in a ghastly motor accident, was not flown abroad for treatment because doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, advised against it.

The menace of kidnapping has again raised its ugly head in Bauchi State as the 11-year-old son of a former Commissioner of Finance in Bauchi State (names withheld) was late Sunday evening whisked away by people suspected to be kidnappers in their Federal Lowcost Housing Estate residence in Bauchi metropolis

A VOLUNTARY anti-crime pressure group has been inaugurated to assist the law enforcement agents in combating crime in Issele-Uku, the headquarters of Aniocha-North Local Government Area and its environs.