The PDP Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has given the assurance that the party is equal to the task of ensuring development across the country.

An Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced a 20-year-old unemployed man, Azeez Adams, to nine months imprisonment for stealing two Blackberry phones.

Following their poor performance in their Champions League last 16, first leg a fortnight ago, Barcelona now face an uphill struggle to turn the tie around after they were unable to get an important away goal at San Siro.

The family of a British hostage believed to have been killed by his Nigerian captors said on Monday that he had been “deprived of meeting his first grandchild.”

Nigerians’ penchant for foreign goods and services fell by 43 percent in 2012, according to figures released by National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Monday.

resident Goodluck Jonathan has approved the removal of Dr Harold Demuren from office as the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) with effect from March 12.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday arrested a 53-year- old grandmother with 1.00 kilogramme of cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.

Tragedy struck, on Sunday, when a police officer, Sunday Joseph and his 17-year-old adopted son, Moses were electrocuted at a construction site in front of the governor’s house at Oke-Igbein, Abeokuta, the state capital.

President, Soroptimist International of Nigeria, Mrs.Funlola Buraimoh-Ademuyewo, has bemoaned the increasing spate of violence against women, calling for the need for a more gender-sensitive society where more women and girls can achieve their individual and collective potentials.

Catholic Cardinals will commence the process of electing a new Poe today when they go into seclusion in the conclave with no frontrunner in view.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, said Isolo General Hospital’s mortuary would be shut down from March 26, 2013 in the interest of public health.

WHO says lightning never strikes twice in the same place? Think again. Last week,Stars shone over and over again on the red carpet at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Elegant actress and movie diva Omotola Jolade Ekeinde burned brightly in a fiery orange patterned-blue striped floor length dress and then in metallic black of the same length that seemed to do her more justice than beauty. Mnet MD, Biola Alabi also changed up her dresses, seen in Iconic Invanity, and then later to a strapless gorgeous white dress with gold detailing.

AN Umuahia High Court, presided over by Justice Agwu Umah Kalu, has sentenced a former police officer, Corporal Umaru Mohammed to death by hanging over the killing of another police man.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, Monday, warned students of tertiary institutions in the state to abstain from cultism, threatening that the command would not tolerate any unrest caused by cult members.

MEMBERS of the New-life Community Development Association, in the Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area, of Lagos state, are currently in confrontation with one of the top state government officials, Chief Jobi Ososanya, resident in the area.