IN the last few weeks, the issue of the abduction of nearly 200 students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State has been largely politicised. Rarely are the real mothers of the girls seen these days on television as some really concerned women and opportunists have taken the centre stage and relishing the attendant publicity, while the parents have been pushed to the background.

The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it had arrested two fake soldiers at Ifo in Ifo Local Government Area while extorting money from motorists and other people.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, began the trial of one Mr Peter Nwogu, who claimed to be a pastor, accused of defrauding some accommodation seekers of N52.3 million.

According to reports, the 52-year-old accused is being prosecuted before Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of an Ikeja High Court.

A 35-year-old man, Jamiu Animashaun, was yesterday arraigned before an Abeokuta magistrate’s court in Isabo, for allegedly pouring petrol on one Philemon Tule and attempting to set him ablaze.

The Investigating Police Officer in charge of the case, Moronfolu Olumide, told the court that the accused and others at large beat Tule and poured petrol on him before a passer-by rescued him.

African leaders reaffirmed their commitment to transforming the agricultural sector across the continent at the 2014 Grow Africa Investment Forum, taking place in Abuja, Nigeria, in the lead-up to the World Economic Forum on Africa, which started today.

It is never in doubt that our entertainers, especially the music stars are living the dream and enjoying life at the upper reef of life.

THE abduction of 276 school girls by the Nigerian Islamist insurgency group, Boko Haram on April 15 in Chibok, Borno State, appears to have become the turning point in their savage campaigns of murder and destruction.

Until 25 years ago,maverick musician, and eldest son of the eminent jurist and one-time Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa who died last Sunday at the National Hospital in Abuja, Charles Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy was not in the ‘good book’ of his father owing to his lifestyle.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram Islamist sect was the beginning of the end of terror in the country.

LAGOS—Lagos Lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday said the panel of inquiry allegedly set up by the First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan over the missing 231 schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, was illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.

Coming from a man like Chief Tom Ikimi, one of the country’s most enduring political figures, the memo to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC Chief Bisi Akande was indeed unnerving.

Despite promises that Nigeria will never experience the type of shame brought upon the country at the Olympic Games in London two years ago, danger signs are again flashing that the worstmay happen at the Commonwealth Games scheduled to hold in Glasgow, Scotland in July.

Cameroon has refuted allegations that some of the more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls have been sold for marriage within its borders. Boko Haram’s leader had vowed to sell the girls in the marketplace.

Lack of funds from the Federal Ministry of Aviation has forced contractors handling the remodeling of terminal projects at various airports in the country to pull out of site.

Barrister Adekola Abdul-Kareem, is the President of Olabisi Onabanjo University Muslim Alumni (OOUMA) and also the chairman of Oyo state environmental protection tribunal. He expresses his challenges, achievements and aspiration as the president of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Muslim Alumni(OOUMA)