The Police in Lagos have arraigned five teenagers and 15 men before an Oshodi magistrate’s court in the state for allegedly causing riot at Oshodi.

Stakes are high for the African Ministerial Conference on Environment, AMCEN which began yesterday in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo. AMCEN and African civil society groups expect that the conference will define a concrete blueprint that will guide the continent to discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs to be concluded in New York and Paris climate change conference that is likely to agree on a new climate change agreement, which will come into effect by 2020.

No fewer 2,000 former militants and their leaders from Warri North, Warri South-West, Burutu, Bomadi, Patani Local Government Areas and Delta Central, have mapped out plans to embark on door-to-door campaign for Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

OWERRI—No fewer than three persons, including a 13-year-old banana hawker, were reported dead, while more than nine others sustained varying degrees of injuries in two separate road crashes in Imo State, weekend.

UN-Habitat last week, launched call for applications for the Urban Youth Fund. In its seventh year, the Fund provides grants to projects led by young people aged 15-32 years who are piloting innovative approaches to employment, good urban governance, shelter, secure tenure and risk rehabilitation.

Lagos—Magistrate Abimbola Komolafe of an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court has struck out a two-count criminal charge filed by the police against one Adebayo Orekoya over alleged attempt to kidnap a Lagos socialite, Adelekun Victor, popularly known as Ade Lexus.

Mustapha Dumbuya, the Head of Sierra Leone National Security, has been sacked after security agents seized 250kg of controversial Ebola blood samples, bound for South Africa, at Lungi International Airport.

The General Overseer of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministries, Prophet Jeremiah Fufe-yin, alias Owomowomo Fresh and Raw, of Warri-based Mercy TV, has prophesied that “the forthcoming general elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11 shall be peaceful.

The Arewa House of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria has advocated a special Northern Education summit to address the declining fortunes of the sector in the region.

Dolphins will take on Club Africain of Tunisia in the next round of the CAF Confederations Cup, with the first leg scheduled to be played in Tunis on March 13.

*I’ll appeal the judgment — AYOGU EZE By Austin Ogwuda & Francis Igata ENUGU—Enugu State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed satisfaction with the judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on the suit brought against the party by Senator Ayogu Eze on the choice of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the governorship candidate of […]

…Protest is against Mrs Jonathan’s visit, alleges PDP By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—OVER 2, 000 youths in Ebonyi State Monday staged a peaceful protest in Abakaliki against the impeachment plot against Governor Martin Elechi by members of the State house of Assembly. The House of Assembly had last Friday served an impeachment notice on the governor […]

Minister of Tourism, National Orientation and the Supervising Minister of Information, High Chief Edem Duke, will on March 5, inaugurate the sixth Governing Council of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON.

LEADER of Free Lagos for Good Movement and PDP governorship aspirant, Mr. Akitoye Branco-Rhodes has called on the people of Lagos State to reject the APC during the March 28 and April 11 general elections.

A Nigerian information and communication technology, ICT, firm, VDT Communications, has become the first firm in the telecom sector to get ISO 20000-1 certification in West Africa.