Residents of Ago-Okota, a suburb of Isolo Local Government Area in Lagos State, are yet to unravel the motive behind the demolition of a one- story building located at Number 28, Ago Palace Way, Okota by a gang of hoodlums.

A 39-year-old Arabic teacher, Yusuf Kalmaldeen, was, yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding a police officer of N690,000, under the pretext of procuring him hajj visa.

A group, Delta Progressive Movement, DPM, in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State, has resolved to support Chief Godwill Obielum to contest governorship position of the state, saying that he would be a blessing to the state.

LEADERS of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta Central senatorial district, Delta State, yesterday, faulted the National Vice Chairman of the party, Chief Tom Ikimi, who challenged the adoption of Olorogun Festus Keyamo, as the party’s candidate for the forthcoming senatorial bye-election.

There was pandemonium, weekend, at the Bridge Head area of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State when a female police officer, Inspector Tochukwu Ofoegbu accused a notable businessman (names withheld) of molesting and almost stripping her naked.

TWO hundred and seventy four Muslim pilgrims from Edo State, will today, depart for the Holy lands of Mecca and Medina for the 2013 Islamic pilgrimage tin Saudi Arabia.

The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Maduka Okeke, has urged the general public to always feel free to expose kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminal elements in the area by giving useful information that could lead to their arrests. One way of doing this, he said, is by scribbling their piece of information in a paper and dropping it at the newly opened Archdiocesan information box, for onward transmission to the appropriate government authorities, for prompt action.

THE crisis ravaging the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, surfaced in the House of Representatives, yesterday, as members of the old PDP disrupted a scheduled meeting between the leadership of the House and the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led new PDP (nPDP) and the G-7 governors.

Yesterday you read of Alabi-Isama’s recruits into the Army who were yesterday’s boys that are now today’s big men, as in David mark becoming Senate President, Ogbeha and Afakirya as senators after being state governors, and others. You also read of Biafra’s military blunders as in Alabi-Isama wondering what Biafra attacked the Mid-West for as he thought there were better military objectives.

Despite its merger and takeover talks that made world headlines recently, the Canadian phone maker, BlackBerry did not give up in re-inventing new devices in the mobile phone ecosystem just as it introduced into the market, BlackBerry 9720 smart phone.

THE search for the top five Etisalat Geek Force Interns came to an end recently with Muyiwa Iyowu, Victor Alayande, Onyemaechi Okafor, Peter Ndirpaya and Valentine Ubalua emerging as winners of the competition. After six weeks of intense trainings and tasks set up to test their individual knowledge, speed and responsiveness, these tech-savvy youths proved their mettle by beating other contestants to qualify for the one year paid internship with Etisalat Nigeria.

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has committed $2 million of emergency funding supplemented by over $5 million from USAID to kick-start H7N9 response efforts as it warns the international community that the H7N9 and H5N1 avian influenza viruses continue to pose serious threats to human and animal health, especially in view of the upcoming flu season.

Popular Maciver Market in Warri, Delta State, went up in flames, yesterday.

ONE of Nigeria’s frontline Cable companies, Main One, is billed to join over 460 decision-makers from 130 different carriers and service providers representing 50 different countries across the continent, to discuss the future of wholesale communications in Africa at the annual “Capacity Africa” event holding at the Hyatt Regency, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Next week.

UNLESS Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria retool for online directory, targeted SMS, website design & optimization, among others, growth rate may be at low ebb, the General Manager, VConnect Global Services Limited , Deepankar Rustagi has said.