Save Nigeria Group(SNG), an organisation campaigning for good governance, will on Wednesday hold a rally in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, to protest the protracted leadership crisis foisted on the country by the prolonged ill-health of President Umaru Yar’Adua. The organisers said the association would also protest the reluctance to bring to closure the invisible presidency by invoking the provisions of Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution... more

A group, the National Intervention Group has called for the arrest of the wife of the President, Hajia Tuari Yar’Adua for allegedly blocking access to President Umaru Yar’Adua. The group had in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Achike Chude, alleged that the action of Turai in unlawfully detaining the President was treasonable... more

Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, calculated how much the axis may have changed in position following the the disaster. More than 700 people died and two million are estimated to have been affected by the 8.8-magnitude tremor and subsequent tsunamis. The quake, the most powerful to hit the nation in 50 years, sent shockwaves out from the epicentre 70 miles from Chile's second city, Concepcion.
Buildings and roads collapsed and 500,000 homes have been left severely... more

Iceland's parliament has approved plans to repay 3.8bn euros (£3.4bn) to savers in the UK and the Netherlands. The money will go to the British and Dutch governments, who partially compensated savers when the Icesave online bank failed. More than 320,000 savers lost out when the bank collapsed in 2008. A bill on the measure, narrowly approved against strong opposition, was seen as crucial to Iceland's bid to join the EU and rebuild its economy... more