By Moses Nosike & Bashir Adefaka Mr. Shex Oladipo, a vibrant figure in the organised private sector is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of  70-year-old Lisabi Mills Limited, the manufacturing company that is reputed for being the first in the country to fortify processed foods with vitamins and minerals. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard […]

Later that night, we heard the sound of a car and my daughter told me that her husband was back. Shortly after he opened the gate and was going back into his car to drive inside the compound, we heard him shout, Jesus! thief, thief then he ran into the other corner of the compound but he fell down when there was no escape route.

Young Ajiroghene was born mentally challenged into a family of eight. He was abhorred like a plague by his mother and thus never knew motherly love because his four elders’ brothers and sisters were not handicapped..

THE diversification of the economy through refocusing on agriculture is a good point for a sustainable economic development. This refocusing will not only impact positively on micro, but also the small and medium enterprises sub-sector. It’s a globally endorsed engine for economic growth and development.

FRESH leadership crisis is brewing in the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, following alleged plot by the Ambassador Ralph Uwaechue led executive to elongate her tenure in office by another two years.

Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has announced that the proposed South East Political Summit scheduled for 16th August 2010 has been postponed, saying that with the resolution of the zoning debate by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the summit is no longer necessary.

CHAIRMAN of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri expressed optimism yesterday that the detained former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori will soon be extradited to United Kingdom, UK, where he is expected to face charges of corruption and money laundering being preferred against him.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday enjoined the nation’s armed forces not to take advantage of the current heated polity to develop affection for politics.

THE Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, (ASUP), Moshood Abiola, Ogun State Chapter, on Thursday embarked on a ten-day sit-down strike to protest the non payment of its July salaries and allowances.

PASTOR Roland Omorogbe, the father of the murdered House of Representative aspirant for Uhunmwonde/Orhionmwon Federal Constituency of Edo State, who was assassinated last weekend, yesterday, accused a lawmaker as being behind his son’s murder.

According to him, “the actors in Nigeria have unanimously decided to suspend Emeka Ike indefinitely for anti-guild activities. We have also stripped him as the Vice President, South East of the guild. Let me use this medium to state that the move to suspend him was not made by the Board of Trustees, but AGN members who have been monitoring his anti-guild activities for some time now.”

The word had spread like wildfire that King Sunny Ade has been chosen as Africa’s sole representative to perform at the opening ceremony at the 2010 edition of the World cup held in South Africa.

So much have been said and written about the true state of health of Fuji music maestro, Ayinde Barrister. But the most damning part of the story that really got us worried was when information filtered into our office that the famed fuji musician was in a coma.

Few hours after he led members of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) in a protest march to denounce the decision of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to licence a single CMO in the country, former PMAN president Charly Boy was a guest of the Police command in Abuja.

Interestingly, while the Nigerian Copyright Commission which is under the Ministry of Justice shut its doors to the protesting musicians and the DG, Professor Adewopo absent, the AGF was on hand to receive the protesters.