Lagos state government, yesterday, said that over N1 billion was spent monthly by residents on merriment and entertainment in the state.

BY ONOZURE DANIA LAGOS — A 28-year-old man, Ayodele Olaoye, who was allegedly kidnapped by a lady, Esther Phillips, he met at Pegas Club in Opebi, Lagos, has narrated his ordeal before an Ikeja High Court. Esther was said to have conspired with six others to commit the alleged offence. The other suspects are Patricia […]

The economy, measured by the Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 6.56 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 as against 6.34 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2012.

ONE person died while three workers were trapped as four-storey building under construction at Liverpool Estate in Ijegun, Lagos collapsed

PEOPLE of the Niger Delta region, under the auspices of Niger Delta Leaders Assembly, have told President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election, otherwise he should not return home, insisting that “it is a must do project.”

Over 900 closed-circuit television, CCTV, cameras have been deployed in Lagos State and already supplying video footages to relevant agencies, State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Adebiyi Mabadeje, has said.

THE Igba of Warri, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, yesterday, warned politicians to desist from making inciting statements capable of heating up the polity.

JOS—MEMBER representing Plateau South/Plateau East Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Bitrus Kaze, has called on the Federal Government to disband the Kabiru Turaki-led committee on amnesty for Boko Haram as the declaration of a state of emergency in three states no longer makes the issue of amnesty tenable.

ABUJA—THE Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed May 20 to determine the merit of an application that was filed before it by the convicted pension thief, Mr. John Yakubu Yusufu, seeking to quash the fresh four-count charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, yesterday, called on Nigerians to rally round President Goodluck Jonathan in his bid to bring an end to the security challenges in the country.

Following the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday, and the deployment of over 3000 troops and Counter Terrorists Squad (CTS) within 24 hours of the declaration, the military, yesterday, launched air and ground offensive in the thick forests of Sambisa, Borno State, an area which the Boko Haram sect was reported to have used as a recruiting and training base.

State governors, yesterday, requested the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant them 25 percent discount for the purchase of computers used for capturing data during the registration of voters in 2010.

AN intra-city commercial bus burst into a roadside shop in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Wednesday night, leaving a passenger bleeding profusely with a ruptured skull and others with various degrees of injury.

ONITSHA—National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, Thursday, described the Awka High Court judgment which vacated the order restraining Maxi Okwu from parading himself as national chairman as a miscarriage of justice, insisting that he remained the authentic chairman of the party.

The alleged mastermind of the Christmas day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger State, in 2011, Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto, yesterday, insisted he had no case to answer.