FORMER Delta State House of Assembly member and proprietor of Kayriott Hotel and Suites Limited in Delta State, Mr. Efe Afe, has dragged some Naval officers, who allegedly invaded his hotel, before a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, claiming N1 bilion as damages.

Globacom Chairman, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. (GCON), has bagged the award of Grand Commander of Business.
Dr Adenuga received the award at the 17th City People Awards for Excellence 2014, held in Lagos over the weekend.

THE recent upsurge in the acquisition of private jets by individuals and government officials has attracted the attention of Nigerians with the ongoing probe by the House of Representatives of the alleged unofficial use of chartered planes by the Petroleum Minister,Mrs Diezanai Alison-Madueke.

FILM makers from the eastern part of the country under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Nollywood, ONN, yesterday, declared one-week to mourn the demise of a frontline film producer and director, Amaka Igwe who died on Monday night at the age of 51.

As ambulances wait to convey Corpses out of the Asokoro General Hospital, men of the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC chased out family members, relations and friends who were eager to identify their family members.

A STATEMENT credited to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) dismissing claims that the ongoing crisis in Taraba State was religiously motivated, has attracted reaction from a Northern-based Christian organisation, saying that Christians in the state are indeed being targeted.

Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Folusho Adebanjo, has called on citizens in the state not sit on the fence, but should be watchdogs in their different communities, following the security challenges facing the country.

The Joint Task Force, JTF in the Niger Delta, said that it destroyed nine illegal refineries and impounded a barge laden with suspected stolen crude in multiple raids on oil thieves.

The communal crisis currently rocking Oko in Orumba-North Local Government Area of Anambra State appears to have deepened, with the two warring factions involved still threatening hell and brimstone against each other.

MEMBERS of the Nigerian Union of Medical Herbal Practitioners, NUMHP, Lagos State chapter, have called on the state government to support their members towards building separate hospitals for the practice of traditional medicine.