The Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Mr Ekpo Nta, has lamented the inability of Nigeria to access stolen assets from where corrupt Nigerians lodged them.

One of the greatest challenges facing the Nigerian entertainment industry is piracy. It has robbed the industry billions of Naira, in fact one of the stakeholders in the industry described the perpetrators as terrorist and that the act is more deadly than AIDS. And in line with its core mission to create and maintain a pace setting organisation by adapting technology to customers’ needs, finished with transcending excellent services, the management of Transerve Discs Technologies Limited, one of the optical discs replicating plants, registered by the Nigerian Copyright Commission, last week unveiled its new products. They are Transerve Discs’ new DVD mastering facility and DVD 5 & 9 replicating machines, glass mastering (Stamper) as well as its new anti-piracy initiative, the Job Alert Management Systems (Jams).

Road accidents do not just happen, they are caused.
Given the fact that Nigeria has the highest road accidents rate as well as the largest number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles, one may be tempted to believe that the level of awareness on the causes of road traffic accidents is very low among Nigerians.

I am not the type of girl who is only interested in money. I believe in love. To me, love comes first. I hate to have anything to do with a guy because of his money. I can stand love and bear anything that comes with it but as for money I can’t stand everything that comes with it, because I hate it when someone makes me believe I am getting close only because of his money”.

AT the beginning of the year, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye stunned the Christian world when he announced a 100-days fasting period for members of the church beginning from January 2 to kick-start the new year.

Barely 67 days to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and seeming frosty relationship between Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi and the Nigeria Football Federatio, NFF, some ex intenationals and coaches have poured out their minds on the issue, calling on the Alhaji Aminu Maigari-led Board to concentrate on things that will give Nigeria good result at the World Cup, rather than dissipate their energy on issues that will not yield any result for the national team at the Mundial.

In the morning of last Monday, troops from One Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, landed at Ladduga village, the only settlement of Fulani in southern Kaduna. They cordoned off the place and carried out a house-to–house search. According to the Army, it recovered a haul of weaponry and arrested 18 suspects.

Two-time presidential candidate in Ghana, member of parliament, attorney general, minister of foreign affairs and opposition leader, Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo, was recently in Nigeria. He has won a reputation as a fighter for social justice and was one of the leading pro-democracy figures in the days of military rule in Ghana. In an interview during his visit to Nigeria, he spoke of being flattered when he was described as Ghana’s equivalent of Nigeria’s late social and human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi.

DETERMINED to fulfill a self-imposed four-point agenda of growing Methodist Church Nigeria spiritually, numerica-lly, financially and infrastruct-urally, new prelate of the church, His Eminence Samuel Emeka Uche Wednesday ann-ounced plans to hold a city wide crusade in Lagos.

Fast-rising Nollywood actress, Chika Agatha, isn’t one of those out-of-luck Nollywood wannabes, that would be fast to tell you they are either resting or having a time off. The beautiful, business management graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has her hands full, with too many yet-to-be released jobs even though she has scores of others in her kitty.