It has been said at various times and in different places that this is not the best of times for Imo people, residents and others passing through the state. People have since learnt not to sleep with their two eyes closed, at least for now. This issue of insecurity has remained on the lips of most people and may remain so for some time to come, especially as crime is yet to abate.

LAGOS State Government, yesterday, said no fewer than 4.3 million children under five years old would be captured in the state during the next round of National Immunisation Plus Days exercise beginning tomorrow.

NO fewer than four persons were, yesterday, sentenced to two weeks imprisonment by a mobile court sitting in Udu, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State for contravening the state environmental laws.

The facility is part of a $1 billion investment that General Electric intends to make in the Nigerian economy in the next five years. It also plans to build a training facility in Calabar.

…votes N4bn for Jonathan’s wife mission building, Sambo’s guest house to gulp N150m
ABUJA—The Federal Capital Territory has proposed to spend N5 billion this year to rehabilitate prostitutes and destitutes who loiter the streets of Abuja.

Most marriages pass through the storms of life and many end in divorce. It is in that light that the Nigerian establishment is rolling out the drums to celebrate 100 years of marriage between the North and Southern protectorates of the former British colonies that metamorphosed into Nigeria.

Comrade Rotimi Obadofin, a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governorship aspirant of the party in Kogi State spoke with Vanguard on burning national issues including the merger talks between his party and some other prominent opposition parties in the country. Excerpts:

The World Bank has announced plans to spend $5billion on 27 projects across Nigeria in the next five years, just as the African Development Bank (AfDB) sealed a pact to provide two sovereign-guaranteed multi-tranche lines of credit (LoCs) of $500 million to Bank of Industry (BOI) and of $200 million to Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), to support export-oriented Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) modernisation and expansion.

KADUNA—No fewer than 10 persons, including eight policemen and two civilians were killed in three separate attacks by gunmen in Kaduna, Kano and Gombe States Thursday.

Senator Emma Nwaka is chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State. In this interview, he sheds light on the controversy surronding the purported return to the party of the former governor of the State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu among other issues concerning governance in the state. Excerpts: