October 2010

Former Bank Chief Sentenced for Fraud - A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced former managing director and chief executive officer of Oceanic International Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru, to 18 months imprisonment without an option of fine for abuse of office and mismanagement of depositors' funds. [Nigeria News : All Africa]

Transcript of Henry Okah's Interview On Al Jazeera - Henry Okah: On Saturday morning, just a day after the attack, a very close associate of President Jonathan called me and explained to me that there had been a bombing in Nigeria and that President Jonathan wanted me to reach out to the group, Mend, and get them to retract the earlier statement they had issued claiming the attacks. [Nigeria News : All Africa]

The Benefits of Revamping the Ladi Kwali Pottery Centre - If there is anything that first identified the centrality of Abuja as an asset to the nation, it was not the 1975 Justice Aguda report for the transfer of the nation's capital from Lagos to Abuja with its centrality as a major factor, but the report submitted to the Nigerian Colonial Government in 1951, by late Michael Cardew, an English studio potter, when he was given the assignment of selecting an area suitable for a pottery training centre. [

UN Team Takes Soil, Water Samples in Deadly Nigerian Lead Poisoning Outbreak - A United Nations team has finished collecting dozens of soil and water samples in a region of northern Nigeria where acute lead poisoning due to backyard gold digging has sickened hundreds of children this year, leading to excess deaths. [Nigeria News : All Africa]