Only eight of the 37 communities affected by lead poisoning in Zamfara have been remediated with 29 villages still awaiting decontamination in their areas.

Song writer, singer and producer OJB Jezreel has been discharged from an Indian hospital after his successful kidney transplant.

A Hadejia High Court in Jigawa on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old farmer, Umar Yakubu, to 15 years imprisonment, without an option of fine, for raping an eight-year-old girl.

The technical crew of the Golden Eaglets on Wednesday assured that it would no longer allow for defensive errors at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

A ransom of at least 20 million euros was paid to secure the release of four Frenchmen freed after three years of captivity in Niger, a source close to the talks said on Wednesday.

Australia’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that a civil servant injured during a hotel-room sex romp during a business trip in 2007 was not entitled to workers’ compensation.

LIKE Zeus on Mount Olympus, Nigerians were transported with celestial joy and they soared on the wings of ecstatic delight, following the eight wonder world visit of the then President Bill Clinton of America. Every Nigerian, especially those in the Federal Capital Territory rose to the occasion with zealotry and patriotism. By every conventional and accepted canon of diplomacy and international relations, it was a huge success.

THE varieties of demons that exist in Nigeria are an interesting mix against which we daily do battle. There are malaria-causing, diarrhoea-inflicting and headache-distributing demons. And, believe it or not, some demons are specialists in polio apportionment. Of course, enemies are always around to direct the demons to the ‘right’ persons. For the doubting Thomas, a night in my area will do the same job those holes in Jesus’ palms and side did. On certain days of the week, ears are assaulted by verbal wars against demons of unbelievable kinds and the enemies that direct them. Definitely, on Fridays, kiss sleep farewell.

THE Federal Government insisted, Tuesday that Nigeria was not broke even as it said the country was cash trapped.

Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Jonah Otunla and the Director-General of Budget Office, Mr. Bright Okogwu, stated this while answering questions from members of the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance.

MRS. Otiti Esegba, a 76 year-old grandmother, escaped from the den of her abductors about five hours after she was abducted, Monday.

A twenty-two year-old self-confessed member of Kelvin Onyiara’s kidnapping gang, Apkpevwe Richards (aka 2 Mark), yesterday, said that the kidnap kingpin, who was arrested by security agents last September, had over 300 trained abductors spread across several cells in the Niger Delta region.

When Mr. Eze Festus Odimegwu was appointed in June last year as the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), it was received in several quarters with mixed feelings.

A 37-year-old man, Babatunde Gbolahan, was yesterday arraigned before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere, for allegedly beating his wife to death.

The World Bank has ranked Nigeria 147th among the best places for doing business. It also ranked the country as the 122nd for best countries to start a business.

The Sen-ate, yesterday, uncovered N10 billion belonging to the National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, that got trapped in some failed financial institutions in the country, while N150 million meant for the supply of spare-parts for the tricycles, otherwise known as Keke NAPEP, was carted away by a contractor.