Businessman and jazz aficionado Oti Bazunu lives life on his own terms; and when in 2010 he decided to begin the November annual music festival that has come to be known as the Lagos Jazz Series, the terms of engagement, apparently, were designed to be as lofty as his lifestyle.

All is set for the Nigeria at Gitex Roadshow to hold in coal city Enugu this week which is also hosting the annual Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).

As I took the oath of office as governor, most of the critical initial steps my government took were aimed at building this cardinal imperative upon which our policy thrust as government will be delivered. Accordingly, prime among this was the issue of insecurity, which made it impossible to live and do business in Bayelsa. By deliberate and determined deployment of legislation and policy, backed by decisive and clear-headed leadership, mobilizing the security asset of our country and the citizenry, our state within the short period of two years has now become one of the safest places to live and do business in the country

In a bid to celebrate the anti-apartheid legend, a non- governmental organisation, Folktales Moonlight, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, NMF, celebrated Dr. Nelson Mandela in Lagos.
The event, held at Protea Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, attracted prominent personalities from corporate organisations, government agencies and non-government organisations.

A biblical adage says that a prophet is not honoured in his home town but last week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital the entire people of the state, led by their number 1 citizen, Senator Ibikunle Amosun rolled out drums for the celebration of their own, the renowned writer,poet, activist and first African Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who turned 80 last Sunday.

One of Nigeria’s greatest, and most eminent medical scientists of the 20th century, Professor Nathaniel Chukwuedu Nwokolo died in New York City on May 18, 2014. Professor Nwokolo lived a long and distinguished life. He was not only an eminent grise of medicine; he was a distinguished scholar and teacher of scholars in the human sciences. He was honored for his work with the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) – the Nigerian equivalent of the Nobel Prize – in 1982. The Nigerian National Merit Award was established by decree in 1978, and thus Nwokolo was among the early league, joining Chinua Achebe, Ben Enwonwu, Pius Okigbo, Adeoye Babalola, Muhammadu Junaidu, Akin Mabogunje, Ben Nwabueze, Ladi Kwali, Taslim Elias, TSB Aribisala, Adeoye Lambo, Abubakar Imam, and such others.

Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people and hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by the military, just 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Maiduguri, a civil defense spokesman and a human rights advocate said Saturday.

THE Kogi State Chapter of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan, the National Assembly and the Ministry of Defence to probe the alleged attack of the staff of JAMB by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has commenced the training of 135 youths on oil spillage management in order to get home-grown professionals involved in efforts towards addressing the effects of oil spillage in the Niger Delta region.

After the the hostilities of the Brazil 2014 World Cup, African nations have returned to the turf to battle for qualification ahead of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted by Morocco.