Five years after the Lagos State House of Assembly passed a resolution asking the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, LSDPC, to compensate occupants of Ogba Housing Estate, Sogunro Phase I, whose buildings were demolished by the state government, the agency is yet to comply.

Governor Peter Obi overcame an illegal impeachment and the truncation of his first term to accomplish eight years in office. It is a feat that has many of the state’s professional politicians and moneyed power traders envious. Now in the twilight of his second term, the outgoing governor who had promised to relocate to the boardroom from whence he came is now changing his mind. Has he caught the bug?

THE proposed plan by Professor Ango Abdullahi’s Northern Elders Forum to drag former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International Criminal Court of Justice, ICC, in Hague over alleged killing of civilians at Baga town, Borno State, has drawn the ire of Ndigbo who have indicated interest to take Nigeria to the same court for the massacre of two million Igbo people during the civil war.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, yesterday, said it will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all persons involved in the alleged torture of a woman and her daughters at Ejigbo market in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State are made to account for their actions.

There was panic at the Lagos High Court in Igbosere, yesterday, as one of the defendants in the on-going trial of suspected killers of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Engr. Funsho Williams, slumped in court.

The bureaux de change subsector is critical to ongoing efforts to stabilise the exchange rate said Razia Khan of Standard Chartered Bank Group.

Nigeria’s U-20 women team, nicknamed Falconets, will fly into Johannesburg today for their final leg of African qualifying series for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, against South Africa’s U-20 women side, known as Basetsana.

Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday, urged the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, to stay away from sycophants and “palace jesters,” so as to have a successful tenure in office.

The United Arab Emirates ( UAE), the second-biggest Arab economy has overtaken Nigeria as equities biggest investment destination, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The Central Working Committee of Egbe Amofin, the South-West caucus of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, weekend, reaffirmed its position, that it was in support of the candidacy of Deacon Dele Adesina, SAN for the position of NBA president, in the election of the association, slated for July this year.

The Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has lamented the dearth of teaching staff in schools, just as it also called on state governments and proprietors of private schools to procure detectors to prevent candidates from smuggling in mobile handsets into examination halls.
This was disclosed at the 56th meeting of Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of WAEC held for three days at Excellence Hotel and Conference Centre, Ogba, Lagos.

The Chairman of Mid-West Bar Forum Mr. Ferdinand Orbih SAN has restated the position of the Mid-West
Bar Forum that the Mid-west Bar Forum consists of Lawyers from the Mid-western region of Nigeria and its membership includes lawyers practicing in Edo and Delta States. That the 2014 Presidency of the Nigerian Bar Association is zoned to the Western region of Nigeria which comprises of the South-western zone and the Mid-western zone respectively.

THE online news medium, PREMIUM TIMES, was spot on in the title of its report: “How PDP disgraced six of its seven chairmen in 15 years; in the wake of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s forced resignation as party chairman, after months of a most destructive in-fighting in the PDP. It had been constructed by founding fathers like the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi, with lofty nationalist intentions to build a post military dictatorship Nigeria, with the best ruling class sense responsibility.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has lauded the Federal Government for reforming its incentives policy to benefit a whole sector rather than issuing discretionary waivers for individual firms.
MAN President, Chief Kola Jamodu, said government’s broad base incentives to a whole sector has brought transparency in the policy and created a level playing field for all players.

The new Ambassador/Head of Delegation of European Union, EU to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ambassador Michel Arrion, has said that the ongoing enrolment for the National Identity Number, NIN will drive foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria.