ABIA State Government, yesterday, demolished some property belonging to a suspected kidnap and armed robbery kingpin, Olisagbo Ifedke, alias Ofeakwu.

Beautiful Nubia isn’t ever going to be a cut and dry personality. Not by a long shot. The Artiste, whose real name is Segun Akinlolu, begins to romance one’s imagination even from his stage name ‘Beautiful Nubia’ and his brand of music is something that has attracted many characterisations from different quarters without any one nearing the mark, at least, so say the poet, songwriter and producer.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, ordered an investigation into the alleged wastage of the sum of $60million by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC, on an oil vessel named MT Tuma.

There was tension at the Ogun State House of Assembly, yesterday, as 11 members threatened a showdown with the Speaker of the Assembly, Suraj Adekumbi, over alleged fraudulent award of contracts.

LAST week, I told you that my ex-husband and I want Oliver, our teenage son, to go to a British university for financial, familial and cultural reasons and that Oliver is saying that he doesn’t like the UK much and that if we aren’t willing or able to send him to university in America, he will not go to university at all and will apply for a job when he leaves secondary school later on this year.

Newly appointed Kenya coach Adel Amrouche has said he was not afraid to face AFCON champions Nigeria in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on March 23.

President Jonathan’s assent to the 2013 budget may have averted an unprecedented constitutional crisis, but the dangers in implementation still abound. It was a landmark that was expected to repair the soured relationship between the presidency and the legislative arms of government.

A group, the De-fence for Yoruba People’s Rights, in Ondo State yesterday asked the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubakar to intervene in the investigation of the murder of a police Inspector, Adelakun Lawal in Ondo town by an Assistant Superintendent of Police.

When Sani Tella, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command, gave free rein to his anger by beating up Dr. Okafor Chukwujiekwu of the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Department of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, he probably did not bargain for the storm his action would engender.

Africa Development Bank, AfDB, yesterday approved N47 billion loan for Nigeria to finance the transport sector and governance reform programme.