#HEADLINENEWS

= President GOODLUCK JONATHAN has saluted Nigerians on the occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration.

= The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has urged aggrieved party members and Nigerians generally, to take advantage of this year's Eid-el Kabir festival to ensure total reconciliation.

= In similar news, transporters in Ibadan yesterday hiked up transportation fares as traveller’s crowded motor parks and train stations for transportation to various destinations for today’s Eid-el Kabir celebration.

= The Federal Government has announced plans to audit all indigenous airlines operating in the country, following various mishaps that had occurred in the Nigerian aviation industry within the last few weeks.

= According to the human rights group, Amnesty International, Hundreds of people have died in detention facilities in north-east Nigeria as the army tries to crush the Islamist militant, Boko Haram.

FOREIGN

= The world's most valuable individual prize the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa has gone unclaimed yet again. The $5million prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office.

= Ex-Liberian President CHARLES TAYLOR has asked to serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in Rwanda, rather than the UK.

SPORTS  

= The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has banned erstwhile secretary general of the federation, Chief TAIWO OGUNJOBI from all football related activities for 10 years, and the former chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), RUMSON VICTOR BARIBOTE for 15 years.

= Charismatic French coach of Senegal to the 2002 World Cup, BRUNO METSU, has died at the age of 59 after a long battle with stomach cancer.

ENTERTAINMENT    

= Oscar winner, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, is turning herself into a comic book superhero for a new animated project.