The above aphorism was the watchword of my greatest and dependable ally, course mate and brother, the late Barrister Ayodeji Falae. He believed in it and lived by it before untimely death snatched him away like a daylight robber via the recent ill-fated Associated Airline crash in Lagos.

Erstwhile Minister of Works and lawmaker, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a leading member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State and a former gubernatorial aspirant. In this interview he speaks on the crisis in the party at the national level, the extortion problems that have hindered the party’s quest to win the state among other issues.

ABUJA-MINISTER of Aviation,Princess Stella Oduah thursday told members of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation that the alleged purchase of N255million BMW armoured cars were not bought for her personal use.

A Polish photojournalist kidnapped in Syria in July is safely back home after escaping his captors, Poland’s foreign ministry said Thursday.

The two most prominent defendants in Britain’s phone-hacking trial, former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, had a six-year affair, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The International Criminal Court on Thursday postponed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial on charges of crimes against humanity by three months to February next year.

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had destroyed two suspected operational vehicles of the Boko Haram sect in the ongoing operations in Maiduguri.

Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said.

The Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Wednesday in Abuja described the Golden Eaglets’ performance at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as “phenomenal’’.

The 20,000 girls below the age of 18 who give birth every day in developing countries make them and the countries they live in to face economic disadvantages, a UN report said on Wednesday.

A six-year-old boy was burnt to death in a fire that engulfed a building in Iyana-Ifako area of Gbagada Lagos, Tuesday night.

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered 20-year-old Oluyi Oba remanded over alleged rape of a five-year-old girl.

FORMER Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Grezgorz Walinski has said that Nigeria has spent about $13 billion on peacekeeping operations since 1960 and has also sent over 250,000 members of the Nigerian armed forces to the United Nation’s sponsored missions worldwide.

SECURITY has been beefed in Port Harcourt, Okrika, Eleme and other adjourning local government areas in Rivers State, ahead of the funeral of the foster mother of wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Madam Charity Oba, which begins today with a service of songs.

Contrary to the high level of importation and increase in port activities that usually characterise the end of every year, maritime stakeholders have complained that the story is different this year as cargo traffic at the ports in Lagos is dropping by the day.