LAGOS — The Police in Lagos, Tuesday night, foiled attempt by a 15-man robbery gang to carry out a robbery operation in Alagbado area of Lagos, arresting six suspected members of the gang.

Mother of a former Governor of Oyo State and Ashipa Olubadan of Ibadan Land, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, Alhaji Alimotu Shadiya Atoke Ladoja is dead.

IT was eulogies galore, yesterday, at the Women Development Centre, Awka, as people and government of Anambra State received the body of the late former Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili

—Barely 24 hours after Enugu State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, was removed from office by the State House of Assembly, heavily armed security operatives stormed his private residence at GRA, Enugu, yesterday, to recover eight vehicles.

The interim Committee set up by the parallel congress of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has described the action of the newly elected board led by Chris Giwa to occupy the secretariat of the NFF as illegal.

FORMER Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola has frowned at the quality of science education in Nigeria describing it as way below the mark. He made this assessment in Asaba when winners of the 2014 NNPC/MPN/STAN science quiz winners emerged at the 55th annual Conference of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN).

OSUN State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said it was seeking for a cancellation of the August 9 governorship election in the state at the Election Petition Tribunal and a re-run, claiming it would establish among others, that figures credited to the All Progressives Party’s, APC candidate, Rauf Aregbesola in the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were unlawfully obtained.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is to set up registration points at its Local Government Area, LGA, offices across the country for the purpose of enrolling unlisted voters into the voters’ register.

Wondering what ‘zoonotic disease’ means? If you think of zoo then you are pretty close. Yes: animals! More precisely, diseases we human can catch from animals. Zoonotic diseases are common and can be caused by viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites and other agents, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has disclosed that, Nigeria realised $2.970 billion from non-oil export, in 2013 a 15.9 per cent increase over $2.561 in 2012.