Former Flying Eagles (U-20) coach, John Obuh, has task the Golden Eaglets (U-17) to brace up for tougher challenges in the on-going African U-17 championship in Niger Republic.

The kidnappers, who abducted the owner of Scot Hotel in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Saheed Kolawole, and demanded a ransom of $200,000, said they monitored the victim for three days before abducting him.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has expressed it readiness to introduce initiatives that will help position it as attractive listing and investment destination in Africa.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Isiaka has appealed to his kinsmen in the Ogun West senatorial district not to betray him during the April 11 governorship election.

Almost 15 years after Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka’s claims of developing curative and preventative vaccines for HIV/AIDS were rejected, the ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, that the ban on the vaccine was illegal and inconsequential, has reopened a new wave of commentary on the controversy.

LAGOS—Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade, has pleaded with the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, to pay salaries of judges in the state.

Nigerians I hail una oo! Ha, we are always devising new methods of doing negative things and undermining our beloved nation,” said Joe, a commuter in an Obalende-bound bus, this Thursday afternoon.

Residents and commuters plying the Mile2 – Badagry expressway have once again cried out to the Lagos State government to come to their aid, even as they blame men of the Ojo and Barracks Commands of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, for the intractable traffic jam at the Volks end of the expressway, alleging that it was a fall out of the desperation by some police men there to collect toll from commercial motorcyclists and bus operators, popularly called Okada riders and danfo drivers, respectively.

LAGOS— Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States of America, USA, Mr Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, has faulted an editorial by the New York Times which berated the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of alleged corruption, insecurity and the ailing economy, saying it was driven by ignorance.

THE frenetic race to the aborted February 14 election, which has now been shifted to March 28, during which the choice of 109 senators will be made across the country had reached feverish pitch before the shift of date.

Although the much publicised première in Nigeria of award-winning movie, Selma, finally hit the wide screen at the House on The Rock church premises, Lekki, Lagos, penultimate Sunday, its lessons will continue to hunt enemies of Nigeria’s democracy and development.

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has raised alarm that no fewer than 600 companies in Enugu and Ebonyi states may fold up if Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, implements the recent 94 percent hike in electricity tariff for companies in the South-East geo-political zone.

Edo Youths Organisation, EYO, an umbrella body of youths in Edo State, yesterday, warned that those criticising the Esogban of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, over his declaration that the Binis will not vote for President Goodluck Jonathan face the risk of being banished from Benin Kingdom.

LAGOS—Residents of Idi-Oro area of Mushin, Lagos State, are currently living in fear, following the incessant attacks on their area by hoodlums from Akala, a notorious drug haven at Mushin.

How to ensure a better life for retirees would be the focus in the 2014 Nigerian Insurance and Pension (Inspen) Award. A statement by the Chief Executive Office Inspen Media, Chuks Udo Okonta, said experts drawn from insurance and pension sectors would be on hand to seek solution to the plights of retirees and make contributions on how to improve retirement benefits operations.