The immediate past Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Captain Adamu Biu has said that the Council’s recent action to review port charges downwards was in the interest of the national economy

JUST as every country is expected to read their budgets at the beginning of the year, entertainment stars too are expected by their fans to say what they have to offer in a new year. For Nollywood super star and mother of two, Mercy Johnson, she began her New Year with a message to her teeming fans and told them she would be taking up more challenging roles.

NIGERIAN party politics since civil rule in 1999 has been dominated by factions, internal crises, irreconcilable differences, open disagreements among members of the same party, especially those in high public offices. Three parties at the starting line – Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the All Peoples Party, APP, later All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, and the Alliance for Democracy, AD in 1999 – morphed at a point to more than 50 parties. Their politics is indiscernible.

ASABA—AS Nigerians still bask in the euphoria of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, yesterday, said 120 deaths were recorded during the yuletide.

Property worth millions of naira were, in the early hours of yesterday, destroyed in an inferno that gutted two residential buildings and some shops on Okoduwa and Dillion streets at the Kirikiri area of Lagos.

Akure—FORTY-SEVEN students, who allegedly injured three policemen and manhandled Ondo State government officials during a protest over alleged non-payment of their bursary allowance have been arrested and detained by the state Police Command.

lagos—THE governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has been presented with the party’s flag with a mandate to lead the PDP’s campaign and ensure victory for the party in the February general elections.

My wife always demands money from me before allowing me to have make love to her, a retired civil servant, Mr. Chibuzo Obiedefu, told an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, yesterday.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Lagos State Command, has said it uncovered a residential building in Okota area of Lagos, allegedly used for the manufacture of methamphetamine.

Police in Lagos State have arrested a 37-year-old robbery suspect, Kazeem, a self-acclaimed one-man robbery squad, who specialized in stealing vehicles with a master key in Lagos State and its environs.