Drug suspect pleads for second chance in life
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.
Nigeria leads in Africa local debt
Nigeria looks set to overtake South Africa as the continent’s biggest issuer of local government debt with a planned $650 million auction by one of its states in October, but sub-national bonds remain far off for much of Africa.
Gunmen kill Obolo, Agagu’s former aide
A former Senior Special Assistant to immediate past Governor of Ondo State Dr Olusegun Agagu, Mr Bode Obolo, was reportedly murdered Thursday by suspected killers in Lagos.
Akpabio reads riot act on Amakpe Refinery
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has advised management of the abandoned Amakpe Refinery in Eket to begin work or refund the state government investment in the project.
Aikhomu: Life and times of a consummate seaman
“FOR everything under the sun, there is a time, a time to born and a time to die, a time to sow and a time to reap.” This ecclesiastical thought came to fulfillment in the life and times of a consummate seaman, Admiral Augustus Akhabue Aikhomu, former Chief of General Staff and Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, who drew his last breathe on August 17 2011
LUTH’s first kidney transplant patient leaves hospital
Mrs Funke Oladeji, the 38-year-old recipient of the first kidney transplant at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), was on Wednesday discharged from the hospital.
NACCIMA tasks FG on power supply
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA, Thursday, urged the Federal Government to give priority attention to the speedy realisation of the target of increasing power generation to 10,000 megawatt by 2012 and the expected 30,000 megawatt and above by 2020.
Court dismisses suit seeking to stop probe of bank’s fraud
Justice Mojisola Dada of a Lagos High Court has refused the application to stop police’s investigation into multi-million naira fraud allegedly committed by some officials of Diamond Bank Plc, recently uncovered by the bank’s auditor.
Royal Eagles rule Gulder Delta Zone
Royal Eagles football club have emerged champions of the Gulder 5-A-side Delta regional zone, which ended during the week in Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta Zone.
Forum accuses ACN of sidelining Lagos indigenes
THE Lagos State Indigenes Political Emancipation Forum, LASIPEF, an umbrella body for indigenes of Lagos, has accused the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, of appointing non-indigenes into juicy positions at the expense of the indigenes.
British phone hacker sues Murdoch company
The private investigator at the centre of the phone hacking scandal at the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World has launched legal action against the tabloid, its owners said on Thursday.
