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[This Day] Abuja - The Nigerian Military Pension Board (MPB) has denied allegations that it does not pay its retired officers and men of most of their retirement benefits.

[This Day] The notion that nothing is a complete waste rings true for Kolade Oshinowo's exhibition which showcases works from materials derived from fabric waste, writes MARY EKAH

[This Day] One Barrister Wilfred Okoli yesterday filed a suit against the federal government asking the court to restrain government from reinstating the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami.

[This Day] Reacting to the claims by Olisa Metuh, Peoples Democratic Party's National Publicity Secretary that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan's election at a lecture he gave at Chatham House, London, Sunday Dare, Tinubu's special adviser on Media yesterday accused the PDP of wilful mischief.

[ANGOP] Luanda - The Angolan minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, Friday in Luanda appealed to the national businessmen to seize the experience of Argentina in developing projects.

[This Day] An Ibadan based legal practitioner, Mr. Adebayo Adenipekun (SAN) has identified the failure of the country to carryout court reforms as one of the major problem facing the judiciary and called for the immediate reforms of the courts to aide speedy dispensation of justice.

[ANGOP] Luanda - Long time rivals Petro de Luanda and 1º de Agosto will be playing on Sunday here for the 42nd time in the national first division football championship, in a game that is awaited with much expectation by sports lovers.

[This Day] Homelessness broke out a rash of informal communities across Lagos, as is the case in most cities of its economic stature. Gradually, feelings dull and it became acceptable for people to live under bridges and raise families. There are cries of injustice when the state government moved bulldozers to these communities, last week, write Bennett Oghifo and Lanre Odukoya, who monitored their agony

[Leadership] The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has presented relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa.

[This Day] An all female art exhibition titled Colours of Creativity which opened on May 5 rounded off on a climactic note last Wednesday at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, writes Lanre Odukoya

[Leadership] The Police in Nasarawa State have arrested an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for alleged burglary and theft.

[This Day] The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Peter Idabor, on Thursday insisted that Chevron must pay an administrative fine of $3 billion to the federal government for the environmental disaster that accompanied the gas explosion in some communities in Bayelsa State.

[This Day] Kaduna - Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will partner South Africa and host of other African countries in training, equipment and exercises in order to build a formidable air force in Africa.

[This Day] Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed a petition filed by Maiden, wife of the late Publisher of the The Guardian Newspapers, Alex Ibru, seeking to wind up Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos.

[This Day] The popular cliché is that behind a successful man is a woman and this may apply in a reverse context. But in a fit of mischievous ingenuity, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, widely known for his humour, once reputedly said: "What is a woman doing behind a man?

[This Day] Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has called on Nigerians and political leaders to "learn from the unfortunate episode of the last presidential election which was characterized by high level violence in some northern part of the country."

[Times of Zambia] THE Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola today finally opens its doors to the public and showcases its beauty to the outside world with an enthralling MTN Premier Division League double-header soccer feast involving four past Zambian champions.

[This Day] Traditional rulers from Akoko-Edo Local Government have appealed to politicians in the state not to heat up the polity by the use of inflammatory language in their campaign.

[Times of Zambia] THE State has applied to have the matter in which three former defence service chiefs are charged with theft by public servant involving K1.5 billion to be heard in secrecy.

[Namibian] MY title is a take from the celebrated Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe in his seminal book 'Things Falls Apart.