Indications emerged yesterday that the Presidency may have set machineries in motion towards probing alleged mismanagement of about N550 million released out of the multi-billion naira Seven- Cities Project which seeks to ensure that states with high crime rates are provided more equipment to ensure that criminality is reduced to the barest minimum in the country.

TWO good friends from the South East of the Niger who came to Lagos some years back in search of greener pastures are currently in a hot soup at the dreaded State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos for abandoning their earlier credible means of livelihood and allegedly turning to criminality.

The Senate yesterday resolved to send a six-man delegation to Kano State to commiserate with the state government and the traders whose goods were destroyed in the recent Kanti-Kwari Textile market fire.

Umuahia—Abia State Government has concluded plans to produce a masterplan for the state. The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu, told newsmen, yesterday in Umuaihia that the masterplan would include digital mapping of Umuahia, the state capital. Nwachukwu said that the digital mapping would signal the implementation of the long expected […]

By Uduma Kalu LAGOS—An Igbo socio-cultural group, Otu Ide Ndigbo, has blamed the extinction facing Igbo language in the country on governments at various levels. The group made the disclosure  in Lagos yesterday,  at the media presentation of the book, Functional Igbo: Beginners’ Guide to Igbo Language, which will be presented to the general public […]