The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, commended the decision of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, that the court can neither be deterred nor prevented from exercising powers conferred on it by law in discharging its duties of capital market regulation and development.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, has said the commission had a duty to begin planning early for the next general elections in 2015

Two people are feared dead, while an unspecified number of women have been reportedly raped by Fulani herdsmen who invaded Umuapu community in Ohaji/Egbema local council area of Imo State with their cattle.

A day after his players were pelted with water bottles by Ghanaian fans during their training session at the Baba Yara Sports Complex, national under-23 coach Augustine Eguavoen was weekend night subjected to verbal abuse from some Nigerian fans, seething with rage over the team’s 2-0 loss to Ghana in an All Africa Games qualifier.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has vowed to sanction any commissioner or political appointee who compromises his or her position against the interest of the state and its citizens, warning that “all self-seeking and corrupt-minded individuals have no place in this government.”

OVER 600 Vice Principals in Secondary Schools in Ondo State are to return to the classrooms as teachers.
This is part of the state re-articulation policy. This came as the state government awarded contracts for the construction of additional four mega primary schools in the state at a cost of N867 million.

TECHNICAL education holds the key to national development. Despite its contributions, the leaders of Nigeria have not given this aspect of education the attention it deserves. This is one of the reasons for this nation’s underdevelopment.

Residents of Ikoyi, Victoria Island and other highbrow areas of Lagos joined their counterparts in Ajegunle, Ikotun and other mass demographic areas to recount their experiences of Sunday and Monday torrential down pour which left the rich and the poor crying over their loses as global climate change unleash its fury.

A 30-year-old man, Muhammuda Babaji and a teenager, Yahuza Baraya, were drowned, yesterday, in a stagnant earth dam at Gumau village in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

For most Lagos residents, the popular adage that water does not have an enemy may not be true after-all. This is because flood water, akin to the biblical deluge, swept through the city on Sunday, leaving some dead, others homeless and properties, estimated at several millions of Naira, destroyed.