IN a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 was somehow defective because it provides in Section 1(2) that an applicant seeking information from a public institution should not be required to demonstrate his or her interest in that information and called on the National Assembly to amend the Law to restrict its application.

The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammad Sidi, has urged governments at all levels and stakeholders to collaborate to enhance the resilience of citizens vulnerable to flood.

A python strangled two children in their sleep in eastern Canada after escaping from a reptile shop and slithering through a ventilation shaft, police said Monday.

Gunfire and explosions shook one northeastern Nigerian town Tuesday while soldiers slapped a round-the-clock curfew on another in the region hit by waves of insurgent attacks, the military and residents said.

A group in the Niger Delta, Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative has threatened to mobilise other civil liberty organizations to stage a peaceful protest to the National Assembly in Abuja over what it described as the scarcity of kerosene in the country and the attendant hardship to the people.

The security Joint Task Force ((JTF) in Yobe on Tuesday, imposed a 24-hour curfew on Potiskum, the commercial nerve centre of the state.

BASSEY Ekpe (not real name, 33, loves apples. A resident of Ikeja, a Lagos suburb, Ekpe has eagerly eaten apples for well over 10 years. The catch is he does not know where these apples come from or how they get to him.

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated President Robert Mugabe on his victory in last week’s presidential elections in Zimbabwe as announced by the country’s electoral commission at the weekend.

The magistrate’s court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, yesterday, witnessed a mild drama following an outburst by one of the arraigned suspects.

At least five persons were killed, weekend, following a deadly clash between two rival vigilante youth groups seeking to curb the menace posed by the Boko Haram in Borno State.

FOR the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the assumption of office by their newly-elected President, Hassan Rowhani, is a great opportunity to rejoin the mainstream of world politics, economy and society.

Notorious robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka Godogodo, who was arrested recently in Lagos State, is currently telling the police how he coordinated some of his operations within Lagos and some South-Western states.

Elder statesman and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mohammed Abba-Gana, has dismissed assertions of a united northern opposition against President Goodluck Jonathan.

Sunday Uti, one of the Athletic coaches who flew out with some home-based athletes to Moscow yesterday for the Championship that holds from August 10 to August 18 left an upbeat message to Nigerians that they would come back with medals.

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A socio-political group, Anambra Youth Vanguard, has condemned Lagos State government for dumping 70 indigenes of Anambra State at Onitsha bridge, saying the action amounted to an insult on the people of the state.