Barely 30 years, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDs, have been masked in many myths and misconceptions. Unfortunately, these erroneous beliefs have prompted the very behaviours that cause more people to become HIV-positive. Although unanswered questions about HIV remain, researchers have learned a great deal. Despite efforts of countries including Nigeria to check the spread of HIV, report shows that these myths have continued to fuel new infections.

A 49- year-old station manager of ASCON Company Ltd, Scott Irikpen, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, for allegedly stealing N34.3 million from the company.

ABUJA—A group, Nigerian Young Professionals Forum, NYPF, Wednesrday, warned two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande and Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to tender an apology to President Jonathan for using bad language on him or face its wrath

Basically, “Lex non deficere potest in justitia exhibenda”, is Latin legal maxim which implies that the law cannot fail in dispensing justice.

The murder case involving the interim state chairman of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe and others was, yesterday, stalled following the ruling of the chief magistrate’s court which sought the harmonisation of the suit with a similar one at the high court.

ENUGU—Officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Botswana have confirmed arrest and detention of 41 Nigerians for allegedly violating the country’s immigration law as several of them are to be deported soon.

OGUTA Local Government Area of Imo State is one of the two oil producing local government areas in the state. It accounts for a good chunk of the oil revenue that comes into the state coffers on a monthly basis, both from the Federal Government and from the oil companies as taxes.

The Lagos deportation saga degenerated into a free-for-all between Igbos and Yorubas. I am gratified to note that majority of the commentators on both sides have been sane, objective and committed to putting issues in their proper perspectives to minimise damage and learn useful lessons.

DAN Oluigbo, popularly known as chief priest, is one of the pioneers of Nollywood who disagrees with the ovation Nollywood is currently enjoying both from within and outside the country. In this exclusive chat with Vanguard Art, the movie maker xrays the industry’s problems and charts a way forward. Excerpts.

RECENTLY, employers in Nigeria, under the umbrella of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, gathered in Lagos, at its 56th Annual General Meeting, AGM, to review socio-economic and political environment in the country in the last one year and as the impact on business operations.

Senator Gbenga Ashafa, representing Lagos East Senatorial District, has explained that the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, will be chosen in line with the party’s guidelines and the constitution.

PORT HARCOURT— Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been told that it would lose Rivers State come 2015 without Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

The release of the 2012/2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) last week, has once again spotlighted the crisis bedeviling the education sector.

PORT HARCOURT – TO meaningfully battle incidences of oil pollution in the marine environment, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has acquired its first shallow and deep water intervention vessel since its establishment in 2006.

OWERRI—Several communities in Imo State have cried out over the palpable tension now brewing in the state, following serious security threat posed by the cattle rearers.