Everyday, a new invention is born. Tech hungry occupants of the global village are quick to exchange their old phones for newer models. But what happens to the waste?

LAGOS — Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS, have arrested three persons alleged to have burgled a store in Ikeja area of Lagos last December and carted away gold jewellery worth N23 million and over N100,000 cash.

The present Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah clocked four years in that saddle a few weeks back after Dr. Ernest Ndukwe’s 8 year tenure ended.

YENAGOA —Commercial tricycle operators in Bayelsa State, popularly known as Keke Napep, yesterday protested against the alleged excessive use of force and extortion by policemen on the roads following the hitting of a pregnant woman by a policeman along Azikoro Road, Ekeki in Yenagoa.

Former Head of State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has expressed pessimism over ongoing investigations into the recent attack on his life saying he does not expect anything from the process.

Professor Sylvester Monye who is the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation hails from Onicha Ugbo in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. Before his present appointment, Monye was Secretary, National Planning Commission, where he was in charge of the administration of the Commission, with oversight responsibility for the Centre for Management Development, CMD, Lagos, the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, NISER, Ibadan; and the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Abuja.

PORT HARCOURT— Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has lauded Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State on his performance.

IBADAN, Oyo State capital was agog yesterday, as All Progressives Congress, APC’s only surviving Senator in the state, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, formally defected to Accord alongside APC chieftain, Yemi Aderibigbe, former Senator Gbenga Babalola of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, among others.

In Cross River State, the trio of former Governor Donald Duke, Governor Liyel Imoke and Mr. Gershom Bassey were at the core of a famed power matrix that plotted the political pattern in Cross River State at the onset of the Fourth Republic.

ENUGU State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, was formally removed from office, yesterday, following the unanimous decision of the State House of Assembly to impeach him for alleged misconduct.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has held a sensitisation meeting with market women in the state on precautionary measures to take to stop the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the state.

While the eye of the hurricane of Ebola still sits on a cluster of small countries in far West Africa, its wind shears has now engulfed our nation, Nigeria.

The Federal Government has called on companies to source their raw materials locally as this will create markets for farmers, boost their income and employment.
Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) made the call while commending Nestle Nigeria Plc for buying raw materials for its seasoning, cereal and beverage product from local farmers

TWO phenomena are currently playing out and defining the Nigerian political space. This is the politics of defection and impeachment. Politicians are either defecting, that is changing party affiliations with the sole aim of positioning themselves, literally, for personal aggrandizement. Or they are being impeached from one position or another by erstwhile friends turned foes- also for the same selfish reasons of personal elevation.

The Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, NBC has said that it is working towards achieving 90 per cent of digital transition across the country before the June 17, 2015 International Telecommunications Union, ITU deadline, for countries to switch-over to digital broadcasting.