The world’s population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, as Nigeria’s population will outstrip that of the United State a French study said Wednesday.

For allegedly luring a woman into sex slavery in Libya, a trader, Iyabo Adefioye, was on Wednesday charged before a Somolu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

After decades of agitation for a sovereign national conference, President Goodluck Jonathan during his 53rd independence anniversary broadcast announced the setting up of the National Conference Advisory Committee  with Dr. Femi Okurounmu  as Chairman and Dr. Akilu Indabawa as Secretary.

A leopard that escaped South Africa’s Kruger National Park mauled a local man, putting him in hospital, a spokesman said.

AHEAD the 2015 presidential election, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has warned politicians against heating up the polity, saying that the President of the country will only emerge through the ballot box and not rigging or imposition.

DEPUTY Senate President and Speaker of African Parliament, Ike Ekweremadu, has asked African governments to make Bachelors Degree the least required educational qualification for legislators in the continent, saying such was necessary given the challenges of the 21st Century African societies.

Of the four elected Presidents Nigeria has had till date, none has been impeached.

Cinema lovers are on the ‘Go’ mode as talented film maker Kunle Afolayan finally releases the trailer of his highly anticipated movie October 1 which should hit cinemas nationwide soon.

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said on Tuesday that he would construct a 1,000-bed hospital in Kano to improve health care delivery in the state.

Some entertainment practitioners have called a stronger focus on the development of tourism potential of country’s entertainment industry as the nation marks 53 years of its independence.

The latest to react to this story is the man at the centre of it all. Jim Iyke has decided not to take the jab by critics concerning his ‘deliverance’ at the Synagogue Church of all Nations lying quiet anymore.

THE Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday examined the 53 years of Nigeria’s independence and came up with a verdict that Nigeria as a nation was a crumbling edifice, with massive corruption and characterised by bad leadership.

When the Chief Justice of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, freed 233 inmates from the Kirikiri Prison, in September 2012, she urged them to go and sin no more.

After ter-rorists killed 40 students in a dormitory attack in Yobe Sate, Nigerian authorities are taking measures to improve security around schools, including stepping up patrols and putting armed soldiers outside them and guarding school buses.

No fewer than eight persons were feared drowned, yesterday, after a commercial boat capsized around Apapa area of Lagos.