Residents of Ikorodu, a surbub of Lagos, on Sunday appealed to the Federal and Lagos State Governments to rescue them from the traffic gridlock in the area.

Mr Bulus Dabit, the General Manager of Plateau Radio/Telivision Corporation, says that the city of Jos in Plateau is gradually witnessing a huge influx of people.

Ajax coach Frank de Boer on Monday ruled out a move to Premier League club Liverpool.

Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons.

President of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies (AES), Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu, has advocated the need for the Federal Government to stop the importation of generating sets into the country, in a bid to address the epileptic power situation in the country.

Indications emerged, weekend, that some of the 788 doctors sacked by the Lagos State government are now lobbying to get reinstated.

A coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations under the aegis of the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, yesterday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to honour the advice of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and reinstate the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami immediately.

Plans by the Federal Government to transfer $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to a new account to be known as the “Sovereign Wealth Fund,” may have met a brick wall, as Governors of the 36 states of the Federation, have threatened to dump the out-of-court settlement deal.

WILL a new Niger Bridge from Asaba to Onitsha ever be built? It is unlikely since governments do not remember their own words, or just make speeches considered appropriate for occasions. The bridge has been the subject of embarrassments for governments, which never forget to play sickening politics with it.

FREEDOM of expression is essential in every civilised society so long as it does not harm individuals’ character or malign institutional reputations through false and misleading information. It is a fact that violation of freedom of expression is violation of the right to freedom of association and assembly.

House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has ordered the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Osun State, Prof. Olusanya Adejuyigbe, to render account of the alleged illegal lodgement of N230.99 million belonging to the institution placed in fixed deposits accounts.

As health services remain grounded in Federal and state hospitals in Lagos in the wake of an indefinite strike by doctors, doctors under the auspices of the Medical Guild have decried a monthly financial shortfall of N33, 477, 508.00 in the implementation of the full Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, in Lagos state even as they are alleging they were tricked into entering agreement with the state government.

THE Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger, Most Rev Christian Efobi, weekend faulted former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, on the statements credited to him over the 2015 presidential election, regretting that such statements were capable of threatening the nation’s democracy.

THE senator representing Anambra Central in the senate, Dr. Chris Ngige, has expressed optimism that power generation in the country would increase by about 50% by December this year.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue weekend expressed the frustration of Northern Governors over their inability to halt the violence perpetrated by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, saying they have found it difficult to initiate a meeting with the group because it hides its identity and the governors do not fully understands its cardinal demands.