A video appeared on YouTube Monday of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and demanded the release of prisoners.

The Lagos State government, weekend, said the ongoing reform exercise in the traffic management sector was aimed at improving traffic operatives’ sense of community services and achieve law enforcement with human face.

France said Monday that a video of a kidnapped French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram,

One of the leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has become the first mobile operator in the country to announce the availability of latest BlackBerry Z10 Smartphones in its show rooms across the country.

…Say we now sleep under the bridge
Residents of Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, obviously did not see it coming. So it came as a rude shock to them when they woke up last weekend to be confronted by bulldozers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit. And by the time the operation, which was reminiscent of the Oshodi demolition exercise, was over, the slum settlement which had been home for the residents for years had been reduced to rubbles and they found themselves homeless.

Embattled Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, PRTT, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, who has been on the run for about two weeks may resurface Tuesday, as his N1.5 billion suit against arrest by the Inspector General of Police on the orders of the Senate, opens tomorrow at the Federal High Court Abuja.

WE hadn’t seen for years. But news of Mr Justus Esiri recuperating in a London hospital troubled me to no end. For, we had a relationship – Justus Esiri, Gaby Okoye (Gabosky), Charles Igwe, Amaka Igwe, Mahmood Ali-Balogun and my humble self – all of them movie makers, with me working from the outside as a journalist.

Since Susan ‘Goldie’ Harvey’s sudden death on February 14, tearful tributes have continued to be shared by her friends and even journalists who doggedly followed her career. We have decided to save the best for last as her widower Andrew Harvey and best friend Denrele Edun share their final tributes to the late Susan ‘Goldie’ Harvey.

A sensitization programme to prevent over use of land for physical development at the expense of provision for green areas in the suburban parts of Lagos State was launched last week.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Monday said that the proposed $1.56 loan by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC was not reflected in the 2013 budget that was presented to the National Assembly.