A kidnapping operation went awry, yesterday in Eku, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, as vigilant youths seized a member of the three-man kidnap gang, while two escaped.

Goods worth several millions of naira were yesterday destroyed by fire which gutted a market at the Low Cost Housing Estate, Oke-Afa, in Ejigbo Local Council Developmental Area of Lagos State.

Lagos State Government has appealed to striking Lagos State University, LASU lecturers to embrace dialogue instead of continuing with their industrial action which it described as “an unnecessary drawback for its spirited efforts to boost the academic standing and reputation of the institution.”

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, at the Arepo pipeline on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State after suspected vandals reportedly shot dead two policemen and abducted two others during a gun battle.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, weekend demanded immediate relocation of Tank farms from Lagos and other ports formations across the country, warning that their continued operations close to the ports was threat to life and business.

Guaranty Trust Bank, GTB, has appealed the ruling of a Federal High Court, Lagos, vacating the order of the court preserving the assets of a company indebted to it, for which it had appointed a Receiver manager, pending the final determination of the suit.

No fewer than five persons were killed while 52 others sustained injuries in an accident which occured, yesterday, at Gora village in Malumfashi Local Government of Katsina State.

SECURITY challenges in the North-East are seen as threats to the 2015 elections. Another threat to elections, beginning with the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, is the legal squabble between the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Fresh Democratic Party, FDP.

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmad, said yesterday that the Federal Government should grant general amnesty to the members of the Boko Haram sect if they meet the conditions that gave rise to pardoning Niger Delta militants in 2009.

The office of the wife of the Executive Governor of Borno State Hajiya Nana Shettima in collaboration with the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has cancelled this year’s Children’s’ Day Celebration

LAGOS—More controversies have continued to trail the recent endorsement of Mr. Akinwumi Ambode by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu 1, to succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos. The Senate Minority Whip, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, weekend picked holes in the endorsement, saying the monarch was only expressing his personal opinion.

BY JONAH NWOKPOKU Stakeholders in the financial sector have raised questions over the effectiveness and success recorded by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON in its debt recovery efforts since it was set up in 2009. They also argued among other things, against the Act increasing the lifespan of the corporation and AMCON’s increasing […]

THE heinous activities of terrorists in Nigeria has no doubt tainted the image of Islam and Muslims much more than it has dented the image of the country.

The National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has said that volume of premium written under the compulsory insurance has grown to N28.68 billion from 2009 to the end of 2012.

No fewer than 24 people were reportedly killed yesterday in an attack carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Kamuyya village, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State.