Lagos State Government has said no underage pupil would henceforth be eligible for admission into any public secondary schools in the state without completing primary six.

A 34-year-old landlady, Taibat Aruna, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly obtaining N14 million by false pretence from 109 prospective tenants.
The defendant, who resides at Ojo area of Lagos State, is facing a thirty-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining, false pretense and stealing preferred against her by the police.

No fewer than 20 persons were killed yesterday, while 10 others were injured when gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram insurgency group launched an attack on Logomani village in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State.

A tricycle opera-tor, weekend, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the residence of his lover at Okpokiti Street, Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State.

Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, faulted critics of Nigeria’s first lady, Patience Jonathan over the honorary doctorate degree conferred on her by a university in South Korea.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will lead other eminent Nigerians to Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, today, to raise N25 billion for the Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Foundation.

THE safety and well being of Nigerians living abroad, particularly African countries, was once again, called to question after the recent lynching of some Nigerians in Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau.

A 16-year-old mother of two, Ebere Ogu, has allegedly stabbed his 35-year-old husband, Patrick, to death in Akure, the OndoState capital, during a fight, and has fled with her children.

THE Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue/Conference, weekend, assured that voice of every Nigerian will count in the ongoing nationwide consultation.

FORMER Ambassador of the United States of America to Nigeria, Mr. Walter Carrington, yesterday, expressed confidence that with the election of Nigeria as a non-permanent member of the United Nations, UN, Security Council, the nation’s voice will now be heard on the international scene.
The ex-envoy spoke with newsmen after he arrived Iloring International airport.

At a major forum convened by the World Bank Group at the just concluded IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington DC, bankers, financial leaders and government functionaries of member countries set a goal of achieving universal financial access by 2020 as a way to accelerate economic progress and reduce extreme poverty.

GUNMEN, weekend, stormed Uwheru community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, vandalising about 12 houses and a car belonging to supporters of a former aide to the governor and Presidential-General of the community, Mr. Clement Osieta.

It was clear before the present crisis facing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that Speaker Aminu Tambuwal had steered the House out of many troubled waters.

FOUR persons died in an auto crash that occurred at Igbara-Oke in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, weekend.

Seven of the 11 governors of the South-East and South-South states rose, yesterday, from their meeting in Enugu, with a pledge to ensure economic co-operation and unity among the two geo-political zones.