By Dapo Akinrefon LAGOS—LAGOS State chairman of Arewa Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Idris Yaro Dogara, has dismissed alleged plans by Hausa/Fulani from the North to invade Lagos State to cause havoc. He also called on the people of Lagos State to dismiss the text messages flying about, describing those behind the plot as alarmist. Addressing […]

IN the last few weeks or so, a self-styled social crusader has been raised to the level of a hero or do one say, a ‘living martyr’ by some sections of the media ostensibly working for a legal practitioner who enjoys media trial.

IN a deal that will see all engineering work done outside the country, denying Nigeria over 2,500 jobs, indications are that Hyundai Heavy Industries, HHI, may clinch a $1 billion (about N149 billion) contract for execution of the Escravos Domestic Gas Supply projects.

Immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Dr. Festus Odimegwu, was Sunday morning shocked beyond description, as dare devil hoodlums kidnapped his wife, Stella Chinwe Odimegwu.

Six months after the death of Bayo Ohu, a journalist with the Guardian newspaper, the Lagos State Police Command has finally arrested the man that allegedly pulled the trigger that snuffed life out of him.
The suspect identified as Dada Ganiu Adesanya, is 23 years old.

THE five-member Anambra Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Awka, yesterday dismissed the petition by the deputy governorship candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the February 6 election in the state, Mr. Mike Okoye for lack of merit.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday, claimed responsibility for the explosion that rocked the venue of Vanguard’s Post-Amnesty conference, saying it was to let the world know of its continued relevance in the region.

Insurance operators from 18 African countries have called for an urgent need for insurance industry in the continent to fully adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards, IFRSs, if the continent must rebound from the global financial crisis.

Though many Nigerian house wives and food vendors may not have experienced famine at any time, but the prevailing difficulty in sourcing for the primary ingredients for providing needed meals for their variously families and customers may have left them wondering if that is presently the case in the country.

The Commissioner of Police in-charge of Explosive Ordinance Disposal, EOD, Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Chris Olakpe, yesterday, said they have recovered little specimen of evidential value which will aid investigations into the bomb blast that disrupted the two-day National Post- Amnesty Dialogue, an initiative of Vanguard Media Limited in Warri, Delta State.