Driving is a very demanding activity that requires a serious responsibility, attitudes with physical and mental abilities for safety.

EXCEPT the Federal and state governments act fast, residential buildings and businesses along the Lagos coastline, worth billions of naira, may be washed-away by the surging Atlantic Ocean.

At the close of work today, the 30 finalists for this year’s Gulder Ultimate Search (GUS) 8 will emerge. The 30 contestants will be revealed at an elaborate event which will take place by 6pm at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island.

The curtain finally falls today in Awka, Anambra State, when the remains of the late Lady of Songs, Mrs. Christy Essien-Igbokwe, are laid to rest.

The three branches of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Lagos State, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest over the removal of Justice Isa Ayo Salami as President, Court of Appeal. They urged President Goodluck Jonathan to reverse his decison on the suspension without delay.

FRESH crisis is brewing between Edo State Government and two-time Governor of old Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, following the demolition of the building of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leader by the state Task Force Committee on Illegal Structures, yesterday.

Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr Olusegun Aganga yesterday said Nigeria loses N775billion annually over non-metering of oil wells and inaccuracy ship-to-shore loading and offloading of vessels

Thirty-five members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, expressed support for the embattled Speaker of the House, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, over the “orchestrated” allegation of N7 billion misappropriation of public fund levelled against him by a group, describing the allegation as ridiculous, frivolous and unfounded.

Emotions ran high few days ago in Makurdi the Benue State capital when the state government rolled out its bulldozers against traders at the multi-million Naira, Makurdi Modern Market.

Commercial and government activities were paralysed in Enugu, yesterday, as thousands of workers in the state civil service and their counterparts from Ebonyi, Anambra, Imo and other states in the South-South zone, led by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Abdulwaheed Omar, staged a protest march through some major roads in Enugu to register their anger over the government’s failure to implement the new minimum wage for workers in the state.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied Wikileaks reports that it investigated President Goodluck Jonathan for alleged corruption during his tenure as Governor of Bayelsa State.

Nobody doubts the loyalty of Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji to the political empire of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, himself unarguably the Southwest’s most powerful political figure today. But then no one also doubts the loyalty of Dr. Muniz Banire, the erstwhile Commissioner of Environment in the State and currently the National Legal Adviser of Tinubu’s political platform, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

NO fewer than 15 persons have been killed in the last six weeks in Bayelsa State in the wake of renewed clashes between rival cult groups.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has distanced itself from the inclinations of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the continuance of Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal as Speaker of the House of Representatives and membership of the party of former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

The Special Adviser, S.A., to the President on Niger Delta and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kungsley Kuku, yesterday revealed that the programme had a lifespan of five years and would, therefore, end in 2015.