Wives of Policemen in Rivers State including those that lost their husbands, recently, shed tears of joy during the empowerment scheme organized by Police Officers Wives Association, POWA, to give them economic sustenance.

If she enter this bus, I no go move from here, I swear!” declared the driver of the Ogba-bound commuter bus this Thursday evening as a policewoman tried to get on the bus. He was shouting so much that passengers had top wade in. At this point, the policewoman could not utter a word; she stood by and watched the unfolding drama between those for her and the very few against her.

ABEOKUTA — Tragedy struck yesterday, in Temitope axis of Idiroko border town when three persons including two siblings and a woman were burnt to death.

Following the rising incidents of Electronic Fraud (e-Fraud) in the financial sector of the economy, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Bank Limited, Mallam Ahmed Kuru, has called on banks to establish anti-fraud departments as a way of curbing the menace.

When 15-year-old Loveth (not real name) started living as a maid with one Madam Elizabeth, the expectations of her parents was for her to have a fresh start in life. For a teenage mother who had gone through a lot in the last few months, living with a guardian at No. 18, Ogo-Oluwa Street, off Sabo Bus-Stop, Ojodu Berger, Lagos, was not only a dream come true, but a second chance to put the broken pieces of her life together.

Fire, Monday night, engulfed five buildings and a sawmill in Oko-Baba area of Ebute-Metta, Lagos, displacing over 5,000 persons.

Senator Gbenga Ashafa, representing Lagos East Senatorial District, has handed over motorized borehole water project to residents of Odo-Nla at Ikorodu, Lagos, with a charge to residents to always ensure maintenance of public utility among others.

In view of the unstable se-
curity situation in the
country, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, says security agencies will soon commence monitoring of all calls to enhance their operational activities in the country.

Nigeria dreams to build own satellite by 2018, but that dream may not be realised if militating factors pointed out by the Director and Chief Executive of Centre for satellite Technology Development, CSTD, Dr. Spencer Onuh, are not addressed.

The Federal Government has extended the deadline for Televeras Group and Northwest Power Plc; the preferred bidders for Afam Power Plc and Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, respectively, to pay the balance of 75 percent of purchase prices to October 6, 2014.

The very large numbers of people living in Lagos State requires that we must always ensure that our social infrastructure is effective, that the social infrastructure does not suffer from non-application of resources and that the social infrastructure is not overwhelmed by the numbers of its users. How would one rate social infrastructure in Lagos today and why should I be concerned about infrastructure matters?

On this year’s World Humanitarian Day, the UNFPA calls for increased funding for international humanitarian appeals, especially for efforts to support sexual and reproductive health and protection for women and girls from sexual violence.

I am writing these words as I watch what is probably the highest concentration of Europeans in the UK….at the exit/entrance point of the Eurostar train at St Pancras Station, London. I am surrounded by recognisable Spanish, Italian, French and German dialects and a few unknown ones, probably Polish and Romanischte. No, I am not […]

THIS time last week, the nation held its breath in anticipation of the final episode in the four months old saga that was the National Conference. The key actors themselves did not have the final pages of the script. Or, to put it another way, there were many versions of the final scenes of a melodrama that threatened to either tear the nation apart, or facilitate massive distortions in political power and resource mobilisation and allocation.