The Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), held its 15th Convocation Lecture and the investiture of new fellows, penultimate week at the University of Lagos(UNILAG) and topping the agenda at the occasion was the need to address the decaying values of Nigeria.

The Port Harcourt Area 11 Command, Onne Port , Nigeria Customs Service is one trade centre that most oil and gas companies cannot do without. Strategically located at Onne, the Command has become vital for trade facilitation within Nigeria and West African sub-region, as Onne assumes the status of largest growing dedicated oil and gas free zone in the world.

The party in government – the PDP – has splintered into two factions: one still “dey kampe” as the “main PDP,” and caucuses around the president, Goodluck Jonathan and the Party chair, Bamanga Turkur; the new PDP has former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as its moving spirit, with a coterie of rebel governors and affiliates opening new offices for the “New PDP” in a move at establishing dual authority within the party.

The Wylie Agency – considered the most powerful and influential literary agency in the world – has reported that their client Professor Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart which celebrates its 55th year of continuous publication in 2013, “has sold between 15 million and 20 million copies world wide in 60 languages.”

The Archbishop of the Niger Delta North Diocese of the Anglican Church, Most Reverence Ignatius Kattey, kidnapped by some gunmen, was released Saturday night, according to the police.

EFFORTS by the Ondo State government to expeditiously dispense justice with the inauguration of a court within the Medium Security Prison has paid off with the determination of over fifty cases.

Mr. George Ushere is a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State. In this interview, he speaks on Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan administration’s efforts to transform the state.

There was a drama in Agege Grade ‘A’ Customary Court when a 29-year-old Nollywood actress, Mrs. Enitan Ogunkeye, who filed for divorce against her husband, Mr. Adekunle Ogunkeye, accused him of dubious behaviour, constant beating and drunkenness.

THE 17 Southern States CAN has condemned the kidnapping of the Dean Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) the Archbishop of Niger Delta Province, Archbishop Archbishop Ignatius Kattey in Port Harcourt, Rivers State last weekend.

Today a great protest is taking place in the Catallan region of Spain. According to the polls, 52 per cent of the people from that region wish to break off from Spain and to establish a new European sovereign state.