Lagos State Government has signed an agreement with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to conduct an Executive Education program for the state.

Determined to fast-track the infrastructural transformation of the Niger Delta, the Federal Government yesterday reiterated its commitment to collaborate with various international development partners to develop a framework that would facilitate a roadmap for coordinated and effective development of the region

United States Embassy in Nigeria has said that a total of about 6,000 immigrants from Nigeria are being expected to emerge from the US DV 2012 visa lottery.

NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has alerted on the illegal manufacturing of Baby Delivery Mother Tonic, BDMT, popularly called Abiwere herbal mixture, warning pregnant women in the country to stop buying and administering a brand of easy baby delivery tonic as it had been found to be adulterated.

Academic and non-academic staff of Lagos State University, LASU, held a protest rally yesterday, seeking the implementation of the FGN/ASUU Agreement 2009 and the sack of the embattled Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lateef Hussein, whom the Lagos State House of Assembly had passed a vote of no confidence on and urged Governor Babatunde Fashola to remove him from office.

SEVENTEEN persons, including a lawyer, who were arrested in Asaba, Delta State, a few days ago over alleged cult activities, have been arraigned in court.

Rivers State Government has criticised Abia State government over a comment on Governor Chibuike Amaechi, for saying that Rivers tax payers’ money was used to aid the restoration of peace in Abia State.

Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, in Benin City, Edo State, raised alarm that the way politicians in the country were unnecessarily heating up the polity, could make one-man-one vote a mirage in the 2011 polls.

CONVENER of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday, vowed to mobilise 12 million Nigerians to campaign against the candidacy of erstwhile military President, General Ibrahim Babangida in next year’s election.

The ongoing 10-week-old strike embarked on by the Medical Guild, an association of doctors working under the employment of Lagos State Government, yesterday, took another dimension as members of their parent body, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Lagos branch threatened to begin a 3- day solidarity strike should the state government fail to meet their demands by November 3.

MY father, who was by every measure, the most successful farmer in the village and in the Ibogun area, was a proud Yoruba man and he told me about Oduduwa, the founder of the Yoruba nation.

THE Federal High Court, Enugu, yesterday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from conducting fresh congresses on Saturday to elect new party executives in Enugu State.