Number 43 Salami Street or Ademisoye’s House as it is more popularly known in the Mafoluku area of Lagos easily attracted attention not necessarily because of its appearance or size but due to the fact that it was one of the oldest buildings in the area. Indeed, it was considered a kind of landmark.

Israeli warplanes struck Gaza, killing the wife and child of Hamas’s top military chief, the Islamist movement said Wednesday after truce talks in Cairo collapsed in a storm of violence.

AS perception principles go, being admired in public service for the right reasons is good politics. A reputation manager’s biggest luck is to find a principal with unassailable character; a man of integrity who can be trusted to take the moral high ground even if it is by his choice, his personal material space is diminished. These submissions formed the knob of a paper titled “Public Relations and the Challenges of Reputation management”, which I presented to the selection committee for the award of Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, in Kano, in December, 2011. My paper drew substantially from my experience as Director of Press and Public Relations to the twice elected Executive Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, Sardaunan Kano. My task was simple: to draw open the curtain and let the public scrutinise the Governor without interference. I concluded my paper with a conviction that a spin put on a bad product must carry an expiry date.

A Pakistani national was beheaded by sword in the south west of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for the murder of an Afghan, the interior ministry said.

It is no longer news that gunmen who kidnapped Chief Michael Obi, father of John Mikel Obi, Super Eagles’ midfielder and Chelsea star and demanded four billion US Dollars as ransom, were arrested recently in Anambra State. What is however news is that the kidnappers carried out the nefarious act in August, 2011 in Jos, Plateau State and were arrested in Anambra State in August 2014, three years later to pay dearly for their nefarious activities.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf imposed a nighttime curfew from Wednesday and quarantined two affected neighbourhoods in a bid to stem the Ebola epidemic rampaging through West Africa.

AKURE— A-19-year-old apprentice welder (names withheld) was yesterday caught making love to a hen. The fowl reportedly died during the act.

Nigeria’s total debt stock has again risen to a very high level of N10.4 trillion as at June 2014. The rising debt profile of the country is made up of external debt stock of N1.46 trillion ($9.377 billion), Federal Government domestic debt of N7.421 trillion ($47.653billion).

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has confirmed more than 90 per cent of the banks operating in the countryhave complied with its directive to install Anti-Scheming devices on their Automated Teller Machines, ATMs.

Cup holders Nigeria have called up 23 players, including ace goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, for next month’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against the Red Devils of Congo and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana.

The list released by the Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday also included defenders Kenneth Omeruo and Efe Ambrose, midfielders Ogenyi Onazi and John Mike Obi, and forwards Ahmed Musa and Emmanuel Emenike.

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and until recently All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has said that he would not taunt his former associates in the APC such as Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Rabiu Kwankwanso.

AS part of activities to sanitize the state-owned Anambra State Traffic Agency, ASTA, the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has ordered the re-branding of the establishment.

MEMBERS of Dredgers Association of Anambra State yesterday took to the streets in the commercial city of Onitsha over alleged plot to sideline them in the payment of compensation by the federal government for the second Niger Bridge.

Former chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chief Maxi Okwu, yesterday blamed the national chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, for the recent defection of four members of the House of Representatives and two lawmakers in the state House of Assembly elected on the platform of the party to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

A FIRST year diploma student of Computer Science at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, was on Monday crushed to death by a bus belonging to the fleet of Akwa Ibom State Transport Corporation, AKTC, in front of the university gate.