MEDICAL DOCTORS in Edo state have suspended its two weeks strike action which they had embarked upon to protest against the poor security in the state and the incessant kidnap of their members by unknown gunmen.

A foremost Estate Surveyor and Valuer, Elder Biodun Odeleye has identified the high level of insecurity in the Niger Delta Region as the major factor militating against real estate investment in the area.

A militant group, “The gods”, led by Mr. Godday Smith, Thursday, disagreed with the Movement for the Emancipation of the NIger-Delta , MEND, and the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, that last Friday’s bombing of the pipeline that conveys crude oil from Delta State to Kaduna was carried out by local fighers of MEND in the region.

A 40 million member Christian Council of Nigeria has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to publish the names of the people found to be connected to importation of arms into the country.

The society wedding still on people’s lips is the Shagaya-Tukur wedding which many people refused to simply call a wedding but a carnival.

When the acclaimed richest man in Nigeria is walking the streets of Lagos, would it be out of place to see people lining the streets, begging for handouts, you know, any kind of handouts for that matter?

Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, musician and songwriter popularly known as D’Banj is a man whose name has invaded every household and a figure sure to cause a stir any time and anywhere. He is arguably one of the most popular singers to have come out of Nigeria.

A High Court sitting in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State has passed a death sentenced on Abubakar Abdullahi who confessed before the court that he murdered a 3-year-old girl (names withheld).

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to reallocate resources away from recurrent expenditure to capital expenditure to support economic growth.

Lagos State Government, through the Office of Public Defender, OPD, has been able to get court judgments free of charge for 1,985 out of 4,860 cases of prison inmates who could not afford the services of private legal practitioners over various criminal offences within the last 10 years.

THE scheduled visit of General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, to the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Limited, publishers of Vanguard Newspapers, is generating a lot of excitement in the nation’s media industry.

DESPITE his emergence as the consensus aspirant of the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket, Atiku Abubakar was, last night, facing fresh hurdles to his long sought presidential aspiration.

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved contracts worth over N37 billion in its weekly meeting yesterday.

CHALLENGES Nigeria faces are numerous.
Any effort that can provide solutions to them should receive enthusiastic support from the authorities, and all who have a concern for the 150 million pieces of humanity that resides in these parts.

The Jos crises, incidents of torture, long detention of inmates facing trial,
security concerns, detention conditions, rights of women and children, extra-judicial killings among others were some of the issues raised about Nigeria at the just concluded 48th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, ACHPR, which took place in Banjul, the Gambia.