After a young Nigerian woman, Naomi Oni’s face was left severely scarred by acid thrown on her in east London in December, police have charged another Nigerian woman, Mary Konye, over the incident.

WHAT do the Nigerian people have to do to be heard by their government? As you read this, President Goodluck Jonathan is busy trying to impose amnesty on a bloodthirsty jihadist group that feels insulted by the idea.

A Report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the Senate, yesterday, revealed how the Federal Government under three successive administrations from 2002 to 2012, grossly abused funds from the nation’s Special Funds Accounts to the tune of N1.2 trillion.

A glut of over N1.8 billion has been discovered in the monthly wage bill of Rivers State public service.

Chairman, Rivers State Council of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Chris Oruge, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Labour’s preparedness to celebrate today’s Labour Day in the state.

Lagos state Com-missioner for Sports,Barrister Waheed Enitan Oshodi yesterday in Ibadan emerged the winner of the zonal election (South West) into the board of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has identified the absence of functional prison services as one of the factors militating against the quick dispensation of justice in the country.

Former Minister of Youths, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi and Osun State government, yesterday, disagreed over the achievements of the Governor Aregbesola-led government in the state.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, passed a resolution to probe delays usually encountered by relatives of deceased Nigerians while attempting to have access to the funds of their departed loved ones.

MY first encounter with Chinua Achebe was through the sociological cum literary eyes of the immortal and seminal Things Fall Apart (TFA), first as a secondary school aficionado of the in-any-form written word.

IT’s exactly three years ago this week since President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died after an unhappy presidency that was from the very beginning marred by ill-health.

FROM today, the Nigerian Communications Commission decidedly is moving into management regulation of telcos operating in the country, following its resolution to “immediately enforce and implement Accounting Separation on the dominant operator.”

AN amusing report in one of the dailies last week claimed that PDP governors are demanding N46b worth of projects for their states for voting for President Jonathan in 2015.

Nsukka zone of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, disowned the ASUU splinter group formed recently by some aggrieved lecturers of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, over the manner its local ASUU branch was being run.

For 45 years old Augustine Odogwu, an indigene of Delta State, life has taken an ugly twist as his lucrative business of many years has come crashing after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,NDLEA, for being in possession of 108 kilogrammes of weeds suspected to be Cannabis Savita(Indian Hemp).

ABUJA—As insinuation over his possible ambition in 2015 mounts, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Tuesday, took a subtle swipe at the presidency, insisting that Nigerians have the right to criticize the policies of government.