Ogun State Government has flayed the deteriorating state of Obafemi Awolowo College of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Sagamu, describing it as ‘unimaginable”.

As part of measures to ensure sanity on the highways during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, yesterday commenced a nationwide special patrol, to curb the spate of avoidable road crashes usually associated with surge of human and vehicular traffic across the country.

WIDOWS of retired workers of Nigerian Railway Corporation, Eastern District, have appealed to wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, to intervene and stop the harassment and maltreatment they are being subjected to by officials of the corporation.

As condemnations continue to trail last Friday’s bomb blast at UN House in Abuja, the death toll from the incident yesterday rose from 18 to 23 with 73 others hospitalised, just as the security agencies alerted of an intelligence report indicating that Boko Haram sect has planned to carry out more of such attacks targeting churches, mosques and national institutions.

Management of Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited has assured that palliative work on Lagos-Ibadan expressway would be completed before the Muslim holidays to facilitate easy transportation during the period.

Sequel to a recommendation by the National Judicial Council, NJC, to President Goodluck Jonathan, he will today confirm Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, even as the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, kicked against his appointment.

TRAGEDY struck in Benin City, yesterday, when armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the Chairman/Managing Director of Tomline Industrial Company Limited and a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, after his driver and orderly were shot dead.

Some shareholders of Afribank Plc have asked a Federal High Court, Lagos, to set aside the revocation of their bank’s licence in its entirety by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

DISASTER struck late Saturday night in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital when some armed hoodlums suspected to be hired killers stormed the residence of an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chieftain and state Vehicle Inspection Officer, VIO, Chief Yomi Bamgbose and shot him to death.

It has been a rewarding 29-day spiritual activity, a period of recompense, a period of closeness to Allah, a period of illumination by the Glorious Quran, a period of re-direction of destinies and possibilities, charity, divine blessings. It is indeed a memorable period.