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