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.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has again lashed out at some of the alleged actions of the Police in the state, describing them as an attempt by the security agency to turn Rivers into a military state.

RESIDENTS of Kokori in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, fled the community in large numbers over fear of arrest and harassment by soldiers deployed to the area.

Governor Abdulazez Yari of ZamfaraState said in Gusau, Monday, that gunmen killed 160 people and abducted 10 married women in different villages of the state in the last three months.