LAGOS State Government has said no fewer than 5, 483 marriages were formalized at different registries’ in year 2014. Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs, Mr. Ademorin Kuye who disclosed this in an interview with Vanguard, said that these statistics represented the total number of marriages formalized at registries, saying “some must have been conducted through different religious institutions; and may not have been brought to government notice.”

ACCORDING to Gartner, Inc., a technology research and advisory corporation, there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020. When British visionary, Kevin Ashton, first coined this term in 1999, he probably would never have imagined such tremendous growth in IoT.

PRESIDENT General of Nigeria Supporters Club, Dr Rafiu Ladipo has described Multi billionaire Globacom Chairman, Dr Mike Adenuga as the back-bone of the club.

Over the past eight months, Nigeria has not recorded any case of polio. If this continues, in a few months, the country will attain status of “non endemic country”. Chairman, Polio Plus Committee, Dr. Tunji Funsho, says its the first time Nigeria has attained such feat.

FORUM of All Progressives Congress, APC, Local Government Chapters Chairmen in Akwa Ibom State, has debunked claims that it congratulated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr. Udom Emmanuel in the last governorship election in the state.

Lagos—Activities at the office of the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola were disrupted by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, protesting over the continued closure of the institution by the management led by the Vice Chancellor, Professor John Obafunwa.

COCOA farmers in Elebisere community near Ofosu in Idanre Local government area of Ondo State watched helplessly as bulldozers mauled down their Cocoa farmland on which they had toiled for over 80years. Tears flowed freely as their source of livelihood was destroyed by agents of a quarry company who stormed the community with armed men ostensibly to intimidate them to submission.

lagos—Former Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, Chairman and retired Supreme Court justice, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, yesterday, said the “fight against corruption needs a more holistic and deeply thought-out strategic approach” than is the case presently.

The Bank of Industry (BoI) has provided N18 billion loans to industrial firms in the South West region of the country in the last one year to strengthen their operations.

lagos—THE Lagos State House of Assembly has directed that all tankers and trucks parked on the Apapa- Oshodi Expressway be removed with immediate effect.