POLICE in Delta State, have arrested four suspected kidnappers at Akwukwu-Igbo, headquarters of Oshimili North Local Government Area as well as in Warri and also rescued a retired staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and a young girl abducted by the suspects.

OYO and Osun State governments met yesterday to find solution to the lingering Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH ownership crisis between the two states.

THE appointment of the principal officers of the houses of the National Assembly is the occasion of this discourse on contexts that facilitate the institutionalization of the separation of powers of the three arms of government and in the Nigerian case, of the three tiers of government.

The trial of three principal officers of the Veterinary Council of Nigeria, accused of pilfering about N90million from the coffers of the establishment between 2008 and 2009, suffered a setback yesterday owing to the absence of one of the accused persons in court.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, yesterday, swore-in Justice Theresa Uzokwe as acting Chief Judge of the state on account of the non-acceptance of Justice Ijeoma Offonry by the state House of Assembly.

OFFICIALS of Anambra State Task Force on Markets and Park, yesterday, denied recovering 20 bodies from a tunnel near one of the MTN masts at Upper Iweka Road in Onitsha.

TRAGEDY struck in Enugu and Oyo states yesterday as 46 persons died in separate auto accidents. The accident in Enugu which occurred at Egede village on Ninth Mile-Nsukka Highway were a commuter bus belonging to Peace Mass Transit with number plate BENUE – XB 504 TKP and another bus owned by Enugu State Transport Company, ENTRACO, with number plate ENUGU – XL 812 UWN each conveying 15 passengers.

In its effort to reinforce and improve the capacity and reliability of its transmission grid network, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has commissioned eight new 60MVA, 132/33kV Power Transformers, installed in various transmission stations nationwide.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA – THE leadership of the over 500 vigilante groups in Anambra State has expressed worry over the increasing crime wave in the state. At a joint meeting with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Murhtari Ibrahim, Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in the state, the Chairman of Anambra Vigilance Service, AVS, […]

A new technology that could assist in the realisation of the dream by Nigerians to own affordable housing has been introduced into the country. Known as insulated concrete building system, the new technology utilises form work panels, manufactured from ultra high density expanded polystyrene (EPS), which are used to construct walls, floors and roof panels for houses.