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.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, urged the Nigerian Tourism Development Company, NTDC, to adhere strictly to the Supreme Court judgment on tourism, licensing and grading of hotels and other hospitality businesses in federating states.

MEMBER representing Warri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has appealed to his kinsmen to embrace peace and engage in serious intra-Itsekiri dialogue as it was the way to resolve the current crisis plaguing the ancient Warri throne.

Chemistry and waste management are crucial in the development of small and medium enterprises. This view was canvassed by environmentalists who spoke at the just concluded 5th Mandatory Continuing Professional Development, MCPD workshop organised by the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria, ICCON. The experts submitted that chemistry and waste management will boost the development of SMEs if well managed.

Nigerians will soon access good quality and affordable health care services when and where ever they need it regardless of financial and social status, if the National Health bill is passed into law. This assertion was made at a forum for stakeholders, enrolees, healthcare facilities and Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs, of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, in Port-Harcourt recently.

Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has warned that the African Mining Vision, AMV, adopted by the African Union, AU, in 2009 to provide guidance on how mining must be managed may not favour the continent.