Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 22 suspects for alleged murder, cultism, kidnapping and armed robbery across the state within the last one month.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, yesterday visited major traffic points in Apapa area of the state to get a first hand experience of the gridlock which has defied solutions in recent times, just as he appealed to the Federal Government to mobilise the contractor awarded the construction of Apapa road networks to immediately return to site.

Osun State House of Assembly has asked the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola to forward his response on the allegations raised by Justice Oloyede Folahanmi of Osun State High Court, accusing the governor of mismanaging the state’s resources.

DELTA State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, decried the financial position of the state and disclosed that the government had over N636 billion debt, including contractual obligations, to contend with in the next three years.

“These attributes which revolve around provision of innovative professional financial services are consistent with our mission statement and would continue to sustain the company’s competitive edge irrespective of the nature of the operating environment in the current financial year”.

They readily, albeit regrettably, acknowledge their unenviable status as prisoners, persons who have been found wanting by their action or conduct under the law and therefore condemned to live under confinement. But that has not stopped them from pressing for their right to continued existence.

The Bible talks about older women teaching the younger women but I realized that in this age, most of the older women are busy pursuing their own dreams and careers and leaving the younger women at the mercy of house helps, friends who do not know any better and the internet; learning all sorts because no one is really taking the time to teach and mentor them.

“As a father, I can’t stand that for my daughter, I treasure my daughters, and I believe in girl-child education. African should begin to change our attitude and mentality, our thinking of female child. I want to believe, I may be naïve, if we begin to have women leaders at the highest political level, we will overcome some of these problems.”

Nigeria is receiving more positive global attention. Beginning from the immediate past regime, one sector stood out in global reckoning about Nigeria: that is agriculture. In the June 20, 2015 edition of the Economist magazine, an article on Nigeria was titled ‘After Oil’. The article stated amongst other things that falling oil prices have left a deep hole in the government’s finances, but the economy is beginning to diversify.

Customs agents in connivance with officials of the Nigeria Customs Service are circumventing the fast track cargo clearing process at the nation’s sea ports. Vanguard gathered that the issue of flying containers without recourse to paying accruable duties is being perpetrated mainly by some Customs officials at the Customs Investigations Unit CIU and select staff of some terminal operators at the main gate said to be responsible for signing the Terminal Delivery Order TDO for these agents.

Corporal Victor Edet, a policeman attached to Anambra State headquarters of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu as at 2009, yesterday, at an Onitsha High Court, displayed the weapons of mass destruction used by a gang of armed robbers/kidnappers who abducted the chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, on Sunday, August 23, 2009.

A CHIEFTAIN of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Chief David Bourdex Onuoha, has called on the management of National Assembly to place lawmakers with cases at tribunals on half pay, pending the resolution of their cases.

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, yesterday, announced Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno North Senatorial District on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Senate Majority Leader.

THE national identity management scheme has been a subject of controversies since it was first muted in 1976. Ministers have been jailed for allegedly accepting bribes over its implementation, contracts awarded and cancelled, but most importantly, it has never been concluded. The previous attempt over 10 years ago ended with heaps of undistributed cards at local government offices.

Inspector-General of Police’s crack team deployed to Kogi State to checkmate the upsurge in banditry, kidnapping and activities of social miscreants, has arrested 31 suspects few days after its arrival in the state.