Rivers State Commission of Inquiry into politically motivated killings in the state sat, yesterday, in Port Harcourt despite a subsisting court order restraining it from sitting.

The National Assembly is set to override President Goodluck Jonathan’s veto of the Fourth Constitution Alteration Act earlier passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly.,

THE Igbo are a unique people in Nigeria. Often hated with a ferocious clout of jealousy by their neighbours for the reason of their manifest industry and trajectory adventurism, being the most vulnerable to unpleasantness of any society they have found themselves as sojourners. Yet, they have always held their heads high as a people with a culture of taciturn personality and reflective pride in their ethnic nationality. Mendicancy as a culture is an abhorrence among the Igbo. When it actually occurs, it is only reflective of a crack at the nexus of a particular extended family.

ABUJA: A Chinese company, Skyrun Meter Solution, said it has completed plans to establish an electricity smart-meter in the Free Trade Zone, FTZ, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This development was one of the fruitful results of several Memoranda of Understanding, MoUs, signed between the Ministry of Power and some Chinese companies since the successful privatisation of the power sector by the outgoing administration.

Nigeria starlet Kelechi Iheanacho has turned down a chance to go on loan from top EPL side Manchester City, preferring instead to battle the likes of Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko for a first-team place at City.

A Lagos based comedian, Kenneth Agberia popularly known as “Mc Shakara’’, on Monday said that piracy had continued to be a nuisance to the entertainment industry.
Agberia, who said this in an interview in Lagos said that it was only when the menace was frontally tackled that the industry could get a respite.

The President of Ndigbo Lagos and a member of the 2014 National Conference, Prof. Anya O. Anya, yesterday, expressed concern that there was a huge deficit of integrity in the country, pointing that the nation at this critical point needed leaders of integrity to move forward.

An Ikeja High Court, yesterday, sentenced two persons to 31 years imprisonment after finding them guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping of a mariner, Omosebi Oluwafemi.

Magistrate O. I. Adelaja of an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court has fixed June 24 for the trial of a former manager with Nigerian Bottling Company, NBC, Plc, Mr. Olubusoye Abayomi, who is alleged to have stolen N68,703,480 from the company.

The indefinite industrial action embarked upon by Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has stalled academic activities in the institution.

Fifteen suspected cultists alleged to have been terrorizing motorists, pedestrians and residents around Amuwo-Odofin area of Lagos State were, yesterday, arrested by the Police in Lagos.

One person has been reportedly injured in a midnight fire that gutted more than 109 shops and residential buildings in Ijora Area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the victim sustained severe injuries from the inferno which started from a shop that served as a storage facility, filled with drums of diesel

No fewer than 760 Fulani have in the last five months lost their lives to self-security volunteers, otherwise known as Yan Sakai, in Zamfara State.

There was a mild drama at the official commissioning of the multimillion Naira building materials market named after late Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Gen. Mamman Kontagora when the recently impeached Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Adam Usman and the new Speaker, Alhaji Isah Kawu met at the function.

WITh the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, the Managing Director of Samsung Electronics West Africa, Brovo Kim has said that Samsung first Digital Village launched, weekend, would provide access to innovative healthcare and educational needs for the people of Oban community, in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross River State