Officials of the Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State yesterday have commenced a demolition exercise at the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin.

President of Nigerian Optometric Association NOA Dr Damian Echendu, has said that no fewer than forty- five million persons will go blind by 2020 globally.

Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by suspects in a N1.2 billion pension contract scam to enter a plea bargain and terminate the trial over the fraud.

THE leadership of the Senate opened up yesterday that Senators were capable of nipping in the bud, the perceived crisis presenting rocking the upper Chambers and by extension, the National assembly of they were left on their own by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

SINCE Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara emerged Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives respectively, several narratives have emerged to justify, reject or accommodate what transpired on that June 9th morning.

FORMER Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and now a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, yesterday lampooned former interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande over his statement that the emergence of the principal officers in the national Assembly, enjoy the backing of some business interests and anti-Buhari elements.

North east governors have urged the federal government to resettle and reintegrate all the victims of the insurgency scattered across the region.

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Dr. David Onuoha-Bourdex, has told the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to bear in mind that the four years mandate given to them is not eternity.

Bank customers who turned out in their thousands on Tuesday in Awka for last-minute registration for Bank Verification Number (BVN) have hailed the decision to extend the exercise.

The payment followed the ECOWAS Court of Justice judgment obtained by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 10 residents of Bundu waterfront and surrounding communities in June 2014.
 

Although her results and achievements belies her age especially in an era where young women aren’t too clear about what they want from life, 25 years old Omonike is an entrepreneur who has built a plethora of marketing communications and humanitarian brands under her company.

Akure—Seven women have been arrested by Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ondo State command, for alleged prostitution and child trafficking.

Traders and residents of Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Tuesday, closed shops and businesses in protest against alleged transfer of Boko Haram detainees to the Prisons in the town on Sunday night.

WHEN former President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the presidential candidates of the two major political parties – the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) respectively, it was taken for granted that the government that would assume office on May 29th 2015 would start work immediately. The reason behind this was simple: both men had occupied the highest office in the land and would not need to learn from the scratch on the job.

LAGOS — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN), yesterday extended the deadline for customers to enrol for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) by four months till October 31, 2015.