Tragedy struck last week when dare-devil smugglers killed a Customs officer whose identity is yet to be ascertained at the Seme border Command of the Nigeria Custom Service.

Where persistence rules, great strides follow! Peter Oladotun Falade played the sax in Faze’s Originality as well as the sax version for Terry G’s Pass Me Your Love. It was my first encounter with him, and that memorable evening, he handled the saxophone in a manner that seemed like he was born with it.

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that the gross federally collectible revenue in 2013 budget was projected at N11.34 trillion.

Cameroonian Issa Hayatou was on Sunday unanimously re-elected President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a new term until 2017.

Minister of Labour and Productivity, Barr. Emeka Wogu, has said that the government alone cannot create enough jobs to reduce the level of unemployment in the country, calling on private sector to assist in employment generation.

A Niger Delta activist, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has condemned illegal oil bunkering, saying that it does not just degrade the environment but kills it.

Sen. Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, former Minister of Youth Development, has expressed support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to reject appeals for amnesty for the Boko Haram sect.

A House of Representative Member, representing Isa/Sabon Birni Federal Constituency, Hon. Shuaibu Gobir has said that President Jonathan must listen to voices of wisdom on the issue of Boko Haram by granting them amnesty.

There will be no tweeting the results of the papal election from inside the secret conclave: cardinals withdrawing to choose a new pope enter a world apart where ancient ritual meets high-tech security.

Christians demonstrated in cities around Pakistan on Sunday to protest after a Muslim mob torched more than 100 Christian homes following allegations of blasphemy.

The first edition of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos.

Men of the Benue State Police Command, at the weekend gunned down two robbery suspects who specialized in robbing unsuspecting commercial bank customers in and around Makurdi town.

…says it may signal clampdown on opposition
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the arrest of the former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, by the police for allegedly making an ‘inciting’ comment on FRCN Kaduna, saying the arrest may signal an impending clampdown on the opposition by an increasingly jittery Federal Government.

As the world await the election of another Catholic Pontiff, the Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna, says he expects that the Cardinals will elect somebody that will continue to deal frontally with relativism, secularism, atheism and nihilism of this day and age.

The claim by a Nigerian Islamist group that it has killed seven foreign hostages seems “founded”, the Italian foreign ministry said on Sunday.