IT was a show of shame yesterday in Akure the Ondo State capital as two lawyers querrelled over who would give legal representation to six armed robbery suspects including an Evangelist brought before an Akure Chief Magistrate court on a three-count charge of robbery, stealing N30million and murder.

BEFORE November 26, 2011, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu represented different things to different people, especially in Nigeria.

An Oshogbo Magistrate court yesterday ordered a former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development in the administration of former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Mr Moses Adetoyese Ojo, to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly defrauding the state to the tune of N60 million while serving as a Commissioner in the state.

ABUJA—Fifteen years after he was sentenced to death by hanging, the Supreme Court, Thursday, discharged Mr. Edet Mbang, accused of eating the flesh of one Baba Okoi who was murdered on October 7, 1989.

THE peaceful atmosphere long enjoyed by the residents of Orile-Coker and environs in Ifelodun Local Government Development Area, LCDA, of Lagos State is presently under serious threat and may take a turn for the worse unless relevant authorities wade into a land dispute between the Christian Pentecostal Mission, CPM, Iganmu branch and the Ifelodun LCDA.

For listeners of good music and fans of 9ice, its D-Day on March 11 as Cecil Hammond’s Flytime Entertainment hosts 9ice in a show dubbed Bashorun Gaa and Versus (BGV) concert.

Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, said cashew has assumed a prominent position in Nigeria’s commodities export basket, advising stakeholders that the bulk of benefits derivable from cashew business lies in the export of processed cashew and not the raw nuts. He said this at the National Cashew Flag-Off in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday.

Federal Government, yesterday, said in Abuja that it will no longer allow the Federal Emergency Road Maintenance Agen-cy, FERMA, to award fake contracts for the maintenan-ce of roads, saying that the era for such misuse of public fund was over.

NATIONAL Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, NCMDLCA, has petitioned the Federal Government over the continuous payment of the seven per cent surcharge by importers and agents.

BENIN – THE Federal Government has frowned at what it described as lopsided recruitment and promotions of staff by the University of Benin, UNIBEN, in favour of the Benin ethnic group, saying that it amounted to a flagrant abuse of the federal character of the institution.