Four gunmen, yesterday, killed the chairman of a vigilance group in Agbassa, Warri, Delta State and his friend.

THERE has been an alarming increase in crisis of confidence between state governments and religious organisations, particularly Christian churches in our society. It is coming in different variations from different parts of the country.

Two suspected cultists, Olowo Ibrahim, 24 and Iyiola Ibrahim, a.k.a Old Soldier, 23, were yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly belonging to an unlawful society.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Iwo, yesterday, sentenced five persons that had been standing trial over the kidnap of the wife of Osun State House of Assembly Speaker, Alhaja Muibat Salaam, to 27 years imprisonment each.

Colorectal cancer cases continue to grow globally largely fueled by a diet of processed convenience foods and a sedentary lifestyle void of regular exercise. But a research team from the University of Colorado Cancer Center has published the results of a study a journal, Cancer Letters demonstrating that the more advanced colorectal cancer cells are, the more Grape Seed Extracts, GSE inhibits their growth and survival. Conversely, GSE does not affect healthy cells and is shown to specifically target only cancerous cells. The authors note that this is an important finding in light of the increased number of late stage colon cancer cases currently being diagnosed.

The crash of the Associated Airlines flight 361 on Thursday, October 3, 2013 in which about 14 persons died is quite tragic and regrettable. Coming at a time when the Federal Government and the aviation authorities have done so much to build on the nation’s enviable safety record is very ironic and paradoxical.

EXPERTS in the civil engineering profession have blamed the incessant collapse of structures and failed projects in Nigeria on corruption, lack of knowledge transfer from veterans in civil/structural engineering to younger engineers.

The much touted peace plans to unify the different tendencies and factions in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have faltered. The factional leaders against the Bamanga Tukur-led mainstream are expected to make a major decision in the next few days

Hell was let loose in Kano Monday afternoon when “well dressed” thugs invaded and overran the PDP secretariat located at Gydi-yadi quarters in the Kano leaving many injuries.

The Oloba of Oba-Oke in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Dahunsi Iyiola, narrowly escaped death, Sunday, when irate mob from the neighbouring community of Oba-Ile invaded his palace and razed it alongside other buildings in the town.