A plane with 20 people on board suffered engine failure Thursday shortly after takeoff in Lagos, crash-landing near an airport fuel depot and killing at least eight people, officials told AFP.

The  National Film and Video Censor’s Board (NFVCB,) has reduced the censorship rate for home videos by 50 per cent as part of ongoing reforms in the sector. 

A plane, belonging to Associated Airline, Thursday morning, crashed at the Lagos Airport.
Vanguard gathered the crashed occurred at the local wing of the airport, near the cargo shed.

Mohammed Audu, 51, of Tudun Wada, Mararaba in Nasarawa State, has asked a Grade 1 Area Court sitting at Aso Pada, to order his wife, Maryam, 25, to marry a virgin for him.

Mr Femi Akingbade, a former Director in the Nigeria Mining Corporation (NMC), on Wednesday in Abuja warned that people living around quarries risked health hazards and damage to property.

THE Senate, yesterday, said it was in full support of the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to convoke a national conference, saying the development was in line with earlier call of its president, David Mark, to that effect.

STAKEHOLDERS in the education sector have blamed the Federal Government for the massacre of about 42 students of Yobe State College of Agriculture by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect on Sunday.

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, in Idi-Araba area of Lagos, after hoodlums attacked a team of policemen that came to effect the arrest of commercial motorcyclists (Okada), leaving some of them wounded.

Irked by last Monday’s attack on the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow, the Presidency has withdrawn sponsorship of six students at the Peoples Friendship University, for unruly behaviour.

THE National Dialogue being arranged by President Goodluck Jonathan might end up in the trash can like similar conferences bankrolled by his predecessors without the elevation of the talk to the status of a Sovereign National Conference.

THERE is a paradox governments have built around education — they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike is only one of many matters that are dogging education.

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Ita Enang, said, yesterday, that the national conference which committee President Goodluck Jonathan set up, Tuesday, shortly after his speech to mark this year’s Independence Day, may be a process of giving Nigeria a brand new constitution.

Three suspected members of Eye and Aiye confraternities have been arrested by Police in LagosState in connection with the murder of some rival cultists in Epe area of the state.

Niger State government is to go tough on canoe and ferry operators that fail to enforce the usage of life jackets.

MRS. Funke Adekoya, SAN, is former Vice-President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. She is chairman of NBA Committee on Branch Capacity Building and the International Legal Practice Committee of NBA Section on Legal Practice, SLP. In this interview, she spoke on the programmes of her committee, the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, globalisation of legal services and sundry national issues.