For 55-year-old Jacob Odumishi, illicit trade in cannabis is all he could presently do for a living. The suspect who is currently a guest at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos State Command, was arrested recently when 1,294kg of dried weeds was found in his possession.

At every single forum he has the opportunity, Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has been harping on the importance of employment generation to make life more meaningful for the people of the state as a means of stamping out societal vices.

Following his refusal to apologise to either the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu or the council for allegedly lying on oath, the National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, wielded the big stick against the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, by handing him an indefinite suspension.

If you love Fuji, Juju and love dancing, then you are in for a big treat as leading Fuji singer Obesere and the ace Juju music maker Sir Shina Peters will be on hand to perform at the Koga events centre in Oregun, come August 31in a show dubbed One Night Stand.

The Sealink initiative of the Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM) to boost trade within Economic West African Sates (ECOWAS) sub-region through shipping of goods would commence operations before the end of the year, at an estimated cost of $61.5m.

Beautiful and multi-talented Kefee recently took the quest for peace in the nation when she partnered with some prominent stars to derive home her message.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has renewed the tenure of Mr. Fola Daniel as Commissioner for Insurance for another term of four years beginning from August this year.

Gospel artiste, Sammie Okposo left the shores of Nigeria last week Wednesday (August 10) to America in pursuit of his international album release meant to drop before the end of the year.

The Woodridge Hotel has continued to attract increasing patronage of its conference facilities, a development the hospitality outfit management attributes to the high quality and standard of if its facilities

MR Ajibola Famurewa is the embodiment of loyalty, both to his political leaders and his political party. Now a first term member of the House of Representatives, he demonstrates an unflinching loyalty to the late Bola Ige even in the grave and to his political party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in his unwavering adherence to the policies and programmes of the party. Remarkably, he chastises the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for demanding the same style of loyalty from its members chastising the party for what he denounces as a culture of imposition of candidates and views on its members. Famurewa who represents Ijesha South federal constituency in the House of Representatives spoke to Vanguard’s Gbenga Olarinoye.

IT was instructive that the inauguration of the latest peace initiative into the crisis ridden Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last Monday took place outside the State.

ABUJA – MINISTER of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation Chief Edem Duke has said that two committees will be set up to overhaul the ministry to improve tourism industry in the country.

Following the successful edition of Crack Ya Ribs show on August 31 in Abuja, the Crack Ya Ribs team is now ready to storm London for this year’s edition of the show.

AT the conclusion of the April 2011 general elections it was considered expedient to have three election petitions tribunals established for Anambra state. The state thus became the only one throughout the federation with three election petition tribunals. The reason for this is simple, about seventy petitions were filed by aggrieved politicians in the state following the conduct of the elections. This is so in order to allow for speedy trial of the petitions since the new Electoral Act 2010 as amended prescribed a timeline of one hundred and eighty days within which every petition should be disposed of at the tribunal.

Following the tremendous success the movie ‘Damage’ has been recording at the cinemas and the outpouring of accolades it received from movie lovers, the movie’s executive producer Uche Jombo has expressed satisfaction with run of the movie, saying I’m proud at the turnout for ‘Damage’ at the cinemas.