Ikorodu and its environs have not known peace in recent time due to the activities of land grabbers popularly called “Ajagungbale” whom residents claimed have made the area uninhabitable for them. For example, Oke-Ogbodo residents were recently at the premises of the Lagos State House of Assembly to stage a protest over the activities of ‘’Ajagungbales”, claiming these individuals now constitute a serious threat to them, including raping minors in the area.

I’m starting to have this sinking feeling that meaningful opportunities are slipping away from the Petroleum Industry Bill’s (PIB) debate – particularly its fiscal regime. Stakeholders are threading the 2009 PIB path of self-destruct. Although, the global debate regarding oil and gas fiscal regime is not new and will continue for ages, one wonders the motive behind the International Oil Companies, IOCs’ recent chutzpah of debagging the PIB on the pages of Newspapers instead of a constructive discourse.

Skoda World, a burgeoning subsidiary of Stallion Motors, is taking the auto market by storm just as it unveiled two of Skoda’s most technologically-imbued models— Octavia and Rapid.

Determined to reposition the nation’s power sector, and to also ensure proper sectoral co-ordination of the value chain, the Federal Government has created the Electricity Management Services Limited, EMS.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State will like to see the Super Eagles return to the U J Esuene Stadium and play their final qualifier for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

ABUJA—Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, Monday, described President Goodluck Jonathan as a symbol of national unity.

The Nigerian Institute of Architects, NIA, has embarked on tree planting nationwide. The Institute’s target is to plant a minimum of one million trees in the next ten years.

No genuine national transformation would be achieved without the well articulated inputs of builders. This claim was made by participants at the just concluded 43rd annual general meeting, AGM of the Nigerian Institute of Building, NIOB, in Abuja.

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, the regulator of Nigeria’s petroleum industry has tasked Multi-Client vendors to deploy state of the art technology in the design, acquisition and processing of data.

The need for medical doctors in private practice in Lagos to tap into the Public Private Partnership, PPP, in the state took centrestage during a two – day Multi-Purpose Public Private Partnership Capacity Building Workshop organised by the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN in Lagos.

As the deadline for the acquisition of the new driver’s licence gets closer, Vanguard Motoring visited one of the licensing centres in Lagos and reports.

Members of the Aworo family of Odogbo in Atakunmosa East Local Government Area of Osun State have dragged the Owa Obokun of Ijesa Land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran before an Osun State High Court in Ilesa, challenging the propriety of his attempt to take over about 4, 000 acres of land which make up Odogbo from them.

THEREFORE, the assertion of Governor Godswill Akpabio that the sacking of Umana O Umana was to protect the Constitution was a constitutional blunder.

THE United States still has not got the memo: we are no longer in the “American century.” The United States is no longer what it was, if indeed it ever was what it was supposed to be: the colossus of the international system. There are now small-state actors that exercise significant regional power without reference to American hegemonic pretensions. There is also a new pretender to the American throne in the form of the Peoples Republic of China, a country with 3.4 trillion American dollars in its reserves.

Owner of the expanse of land encompassing Orudu Village in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, Otunba Adebayo Ajao and his estate agent have said they are interested in peaceful resolution of the ownership crisis over the land.