THE Chairman and Pro-Chancellor of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Otunba Alex Onabanjo, has resigned his appointment.

The children in Lagos are in for a swell time this Children’s Day celebration as the Lagos State governor, Mr Raji Fashiola, SAN, has concluded plans to host over 500 of them in the Rafiaji area of Lagos. The event scheduled to hold on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Community Center, Onikan aims among other things to reach the under privileged in the society.

THE police in Benin have begun investigations into the death of a 40-year-old single mother, whose naked corpse, was, yesterday, discovered on the street where she lived in the city.

An Oredo Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Benin City, yesterday, ordered the remand of a middle-aged man in prison custody for allegedly duping an Edo State High Court judge, Justice Roland Amaize, of the sum of N900,000.

as First Lady visits hospital, orphanages

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his scheduled trip to France for the summit of Eight Industrialised Nations, the G-8.

This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja and signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro.

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As Nigeria celebrates its National Children’s Day, today, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has commended the National Assembly for passing the National Health Bill into law. It also called on Preisdent Goodluck Jonathan to quickly assent to the Bill for immediate implementation across the country.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, shut a total of 16 bakeries and water production outfits for non compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices, GMP, and Good Hygienic Practice, GHP, in three different locations in Lagos.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Libya’s Col Muammar Gaddafi to step down as “all options are open”.

“We are not saying that Gaddafi needs to be exiled. He must leave power and the quicker he does it, the greater his choice,” Mr Sarkozy told journalists.

He is hosting a meeting of leaders from the [...]

CHAIRMAN of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Chief Peter Nwabaoshi, has denied alleged plot by his party to bomb the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office, Asaba.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, yesterday, joined the Labour Party to ask a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare sections 140(2) and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended, which stipulated specific order a tribunal can make in election petition case, as unconstitutional, null and void.