Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), a fiery Lagos lawyer and human rights activist came out of the kidnappers den with a message for those in authority: “ Grant the kidnappers amnesty”.

Heavy gunfire and loud explosions erupted at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall Monday as Kenyan troops fought Al Qaeda-linked gunmen who were holding hostages after massacring at least 69 people.

A 32-year-old driver, Muhammadu Alabi, has been arraigned before an Abule-Egba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on a charge of alleged rape of an eight-year-old daughter of his neighbour.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, weekend, said more than N36 billion was spent annually by Lagos residents in organizing different social events.

National Pension Commission, PenCom, weekend, said the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, had generated over N3.5 trillion with no fewer than 5.61 million workers now in the schem

SECRETARY to the Delta State Government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macualay, spoke to Vanguard, weekend, in Asaba, on the latest threat to the security of the state by the most wanted kidnapper and armed robbery kingpin in the state, Kelvin.

A 34-year-old man, who poses as a Muslim cleric to defraud gullible Nigerians has been arrested by operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding one of his victims of N8 million.

The new private sector investors who bought the electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, are to inject a total of $1.8 billion into the operations of the companies.

National President, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Alhaji Olayiwola Shittu, has blamed the total concession of Nigerian ports for their poor services.

THE Council on Foreign Relations enjoys a well-earned reputation as a key laboratory for the cutting edge ideas that shape the strategic policy of the United States of America.

All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Solomon, Ewuga, Nasarawa North, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart in the Senate, Senator Suleiman Adokwe, representing Nasarawa South, have disagreed over the latter’s call for a declaration of emergency rule in the state.

Six suspects, alleged to be members of a secret cult, known as Buccaneers and aged between 19 and 21, have been arraigned before an Owerri Chief Magistrate’s Court for armed robbery and attempted murder.

Those standing trial for the alleged offences include Miracle Orji, 19, Chukwuezi Chijioke, 20, Ezino Ikenna, 19, Maduabuchi Nnadi, 21, Maduforo Chinonso, 20, and Ugochukwu Iheme, 20.

Operatives of Department of State Services, DSS, have rescued a 51-year-old staff of Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Mr. Atoyebi Toyin, abducted last week.

KOKORI, one of the six sub-urban ‘states’ of Agbon kingdom in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State with a population of between 50,000 and 100,000 persons, occupying about 196 square kilometres, has been in the news lately for a wrong cause.

Catholic Bishops in Imo State have called on Governor Rochas Okorocha and members of the State House of Assembly to remove all anti-life sections in state’s Abortion Law number 12 of 2012, which harbour liberalist-abortion provisions.