-The son of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Delta State, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay was kidnapped on Monday, at his home town, Owheologbo, near Ozoro, in Isoko North Local Government Area of the state.
-Bicycles, usually very rare on Jos roads Plateau State, have surfaced on major highways due to the recent ban on the use of commercial motorcycles in the city.
-Dangote Aliko is to resume work as president of Nigeria Stock Exchange today. Following the Court of Appeal ruling, last weekend, upholding Alhaji Aliko Dangote as President of Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, he is expected to resume duty today. With the reinstatement, Dangote is expected to take over from Mallam Ballama Manu, who has been the Interim President of the Council since August 5, 2010 when SEC intervened in the running of Exchange.
-There was a bomb scare at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria yesterday. -Students of Ekiti State University, EKSU, Ado- Ekiti, yesterday, disrupted the first semester examination billed to be conducted in four centres in different parts of the state.The students were protesting the directive of the management of the institution ordering them to pay their school fees in full before they could be allowed to sit for examination.
-TODAY IN HISTORY: Today is world Sickle Cell day to raise awareness about sickle cell disease and its prevention.
-Bank of America, M&T Bank and Wells Fargo received directive from the US government to close the accounts of the Nigerian embassy in Washington and its consulate in New York on suspicion of money laundering after traffic on the various accounts raised a red flag.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS
-According to court documents released over the weekend, Facebook Inc. will pay $10 million to charity in settlement of a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control use of their "names, photographs and likenesses."
-New research by scientists in Spain suggests that rather than the universe expanding, as is generally believed, time is gradually slowing down and will eventually stop altogether.
Professor Jose Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raul Vera from the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca have said that the theory known as "dark energy," an opposite force to gravity, is wrong and that the universe is slowing down rather than growing, according to the.


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