IJAW Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, Thursday , criticized the attempt by suspected Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, to shoot down the plane of President Goodluck Jonathan during his two-day visit to Borno State, last week.

The Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba( LUTH), Prof. Akin Osibogun, said that chronic kidney diseases was on the increase among youths.

POLICE in Delta State have arrested 26-suspected cultists in Kwale, Asaba and Warri in a renewed war against cultism in the state.

Many catholic faithful in Enugu city have expressed satisfaction with Wednesday’s election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

US President Barack Obama offered “warm wishes” on behalf of the American people to newly elected Pope Francis on Wednesday, hailing the Argentine as “the first pope from the Americas.”

—There was a mild drama, yesterday, at the Ogun State Police Command, at Eleweran, Abeokuta, when a two-month old baby, Oyinkansola Adeosun, was paraded alongside her mother, Fausat Adeosun for alleged involvement in robbery and death of no fewer than five people.

AT 20, Nigeria’s home video industry, Nollywood, has assumed enough importance to receive presidential attention. Way before it turned 20; Nollywood had defined Nigeria internationally, through its daily offerings that are seen all over the word.

Snippets from the autopsy report on the 25 corpses dumped inside Ezu River in Amansea, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, indicate that the deceased were extra-judicially murdered.

Irate commercial motorcyclists, popularly called, Okada riders, went on rampage yesterday in Akowonjo area of Alimosho Local Government when one of their colleagues was crushed to death by a fast moving articulated vehicle at Akowonjo roundabout.

Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Umar Malik Kuliya, has been in the saddle in the last one and half years. A former State Counsel in the State Ministry of Justice who began his career 25 years ago is a product of Bayero University. Kuliya who left for the banking sector two years after, later returned to the State Justice Ministry as Commissioner 23 years after.
In this interview, he spoke on the nation’s Criminal Justice System, particularly the inherent peculiarities in both Penal and Criminal Codes, Corruption and Constitution amendments.
Kuliya also spoke on his challenges as well as achievements as Kano State number one law officer which include training and employment of several lawyers and the state government face-off with Outdoor Advertisers Association of Nigeria which has now been resolved.

A policeman and a bank official were reportedly killed in a shoot out between policemen and robbers who ambushed a bullion van along the Okitipupa -Igbokoda expressway in OndoState on Tuesday.

NO fewer than 450 retirees of the Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST, have died for lack of money to meet their medical and other needs while waiting for the payment of their pensions among other entitlements in the last five years.

Enugu State government, yesterday, ordered the closure of 48 private schools in Awgu Local Government Area for allegedly operating below standard and without approval.

MORE than one hundred of Aero Contractors’ passengers were, yesterday, stranded at the Domestic Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA2, as officials of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, and the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, grounded all flight operations of the airline for alleged insensitivity to staff welfare and anti-union activities.

MANY commentators are not pleased with President Goodluck Jonathan over his Borno/Yobe outing last week.