OSOGBO- Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, has described the suspension and travails of President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, as judicial terrorism.

FOLLOWING the failure of some state governments to implement the new N18,000 minimum wage, workers in Ekiti, Imo and Anambra states yesterday embarked on indefinite strike to press home their demands.

Popular rapper 50 Cent may be a super star in the United States of America where he plies his trade in the music industry, but his stardom was not enough to sway one of Africa’s greatest playwrights and superstar novelist, Nigerian born Chinua Achebe when he attempted to adapt the theme Things Fall Apart for his new movie.

IN line with the strategy of utilising public private partnership towards mitigating the impact of HIV & AIDS epidemic and other related ailments, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, in collaboration with National Communications Commission, NCC, and all major telecommunication companies, have pledged to collaborate in setting up a national call centre.

JAMILU Mohammed made a mince-meat of an Ivorian, Thursday, in the 58 kg to win a precious gold for Nigeria in Taekwondo just as Joy Ekhator won bronze in the -48 category.

Tears flowed freely yesterday in Abuja as sympathisers and relations of victims of the UN house bomb blast of August 26 relived painful memories of their loved ones during the memorial service organised for those who died in the incident.

After the United Nations House was bombed in Abuja on Friday, August 26th 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned the heads of the Security agencies to an emergency meeting in Aso Villa.

ABEOKUTA- Immediate past Governor of Ogun State, Olugbenga Daniel, Thursday, alleged that the Truth Commission inaugurated Wednesday by Governor Ibikunle Amosun was to witch-hunt him.

Worried by reports of attacks on Nigerians and other black Africans in Libya following the overthrow of the former Libyan leader, Mouamar Ghaddafi, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs to brief members on measures taken to protect Nigerians living there.

Calabar- The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, has dismissed the appeal by the governorship candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in Akwa Ibom State, Senator Akpan Udoedeghe, challenging the victory of Governor Godswill Akpabio in the last April governorship election.

Love,” in the words of Shalamar, one of my favourite groups growing up, “is better the second time around”. I’m sure you’ve heard this adage before—just as you are, no doubt, aware that some renewed relationships still end up on the rocks.

AKURE- After seven days in the den of kidnappers, the lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Dr. Tunji Akinlabi has been released.

You feel you are in their lives, those sometimes doubtful characters that live inside your television and get you holding your breath every so often when you watch them. You get sucked in, too involved. You take sides in the conflicts. You feel their fears, tensions, joy.

WARRI- Contractors to the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, in Warri, Delta State, has given the oil commission, a four-day ultimatum to pay up all outstanding job certificates, currently with the commission or they would shut down oil installations in the state.

Embattled chairman of Sapele/Okpe Community, Mr. Michael Egbejule, has denied the allegation credited to Senator David Dafinone that he (Egbejule) and his committee members misappropriated and embezzled N5.25 million, which caused the recent leadership tussle in the community.