ONE-year-old baby, Odinaka Nworu, was weekend reported to have died, following the collapse of a soak-away pit at No. 5 Obi Street in Abakaliki.

THE other day, Governor Babatunde Fashola retraced his position on the school fees saga that has paralysed the Lagos State University these past months. It is not a victory for the students, neither is it a victory for ASUU and SSANU. It is also not a victory for the parents of the students.

There was a mild drama yesterday at the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the impeached president of the NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari who was reinstated to his position last Friday by the Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr. Tamuno Danagogo resumed in his office.

Jeep, the legendary off-road and sports utility vehicle maker is back again with a new addition to the Jeep Wrangler line up in Nigeria. After observing the wide acceptance of the Wrangler, Weststar Associates Ltd, the authorised general distributor of Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram in Nigeria, added the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon to the family.

Mr. Tajudeen Agbolade (not real name) is a business executive in Lagos and indeed a representative in Nigeria of a major manufacturer in Central Europe. His position entails his having to travel often overseas for business. On one of his trips abroad, he had a brush with the concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, to tow vehicles around the airport.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, signed a bill on the amendment of section 50 of the Lagos State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law 2010, into law.

While signing the bill into law at the State House, Ikeja, the governor explained that the amendment became necessary following the wound-up of the World Bank-assisted project on the Lagos Metropolitan and Urban Development and Governance Project, LMDGP, last year.

Some of the people who fled an ebola quarantine centre in a Liberian slum when it was looted, weekend, are again under observation at a hospital Monday, a health official said.

ABUJA — One hundred and twenty days after the Chibok school girls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, the BringOurGirls group, yesterday, challenged the Federal Government to take military action to rescue the girls.

THE Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, has petitioned Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State over what it described as threat to the lives of its staff in Sapele by an operative of Sapele vigilante over the management of a transformer.

To put an end to the recurring issue of gas flaring in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, the Federal Government should make the practice unprofitable by enforcing stringent penalties against defaulting companies.

THE world’s worst-ever outbreak of ebola will inflict economic damage on the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as companies from Sime Darby Bhd to ArcelorMittal scale back operations. Commercial and transport disruptions that will probably last for at least the next month, along with increased health expenditure, may put pressure on budgets, jeopardising the nations’ economic growth, Matt Robinson, a senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service, said in a report.

There was bomb scare at Lagos Airport Monday as a disabled man wearing canisters around his neck was arrested at the annex office of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, office located inside the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

Given the technical capacity and huge funding required, there is the need for collaboration between Nigerian independents and the multinationals to sustain operations in the sector, the Managing Director of Seplat Petroleum Development Company, Mr. Austin Avuru, has said.

Newly elected People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for Burutu Local Government Area, Chief Ebiteme Clark, has expressed his gratitude to the leadership of the party for the confidence bestowed on him, to represent the party as its candidate, in the forthcoming local government elections in October.

The verbal war between Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, has taken a more dramatic dimension even after the near bloody clash between their supporters during last weekend’s New Yam Festival at Mbaise.