Police in Abia State have arrested 14 pregnant teenagers at a maternity home allegedly used as baby factory at Umunkpeyi in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the state.

Nigeria and other developing countries require only quality policies to harness e-commerce for sustainable development, the United Nations Conference on the Trade and Development, UNCTAD, has said.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission appears reinvigorated and rejuvenated for its traditional role of fighting economic and financial crimes. It seems to be experiencing a new lease of life in the manner it has been going after some former governors and other powerful untouchables in the expired dispensation of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Nasarawa State governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the last general elections, Labaran Maku, yesterday asked the Nasarawa State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lafia to declare him winner of the election.

THE Centre for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP, Warri, Delta State, has described the recent directives by President Muhammadu Buhari, authorizing immediate prosecution of all culprits involved in the $180 million Halliburton bribe scandal, as a bold attempt to tackle official corruption and greed in the polity.

GOVERNOR Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Tuesday, declared that he would abide by the decision of the committee set up to look into the payment of workers’ salaries in the state.

Bayelsa State communities’ elders and youth leaders have condemned the rising wave of attacks on crude oil bearing pipelines by suspected oil thieves operating in the creeks of the state.

Social media was a paradigm shift in the way organizations communicate with their clients and consumers. This year, more than 88 percent all over the world will use social media to win and attract new customers and make huge sales.

If there was one dream Adebowale Naphisat cherished so much, it was that of completing her tertiary education. She believed in it and strived to actualise it. So, she certainly would not have taken kindly to any prophecy that this dream would be cut short or aborted by tragedy.

Former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume, has urged people of the state to exercise patience with Governor Samuel Ortom, stressing that the rot in the state could not be cleaned overnight.

This month – July – was a very auspicious month for Nigeria in 2014. Two health related occurrences took place in that month. On Sunday July 20 2014, Patrick Sawyer flew into Lagos airport, a sick man with Ebola Virus Disease. He died five days later, but not before infecting other people – his primary contacts -health workers who took care of him and who subsequently infected other people.

Two members of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos State have been arrested in connection with the murder of the party’s Assistant Treasurer, Shalewa Daramola, last week in Festac, Lagos.

MANY Nigerians once again demonstrated their usual disdain for deadline in respect of the ongoing Bank Verification Number,(BVN), registration. During its launch on February 14, 2014 by the then Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the apex bank had fixed July 2014 as the commencement date for the BVN registration and December 31, 2014 as the deadline for all bank customers to have their BVNs.

Justice Olabisi Akinlade of a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere yesterday threatened to revoke the bail granted to the fourth defendant, Nonso Ezike in the on going murder trial of Cynthia Osokogu over delay tactics by his counsel, C. J Ajakona.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Washington urged American entrepreneurs to use the opportunities offered by the liberal trade and investment climate in Nigeria to do profitable business. Buhari, who gave the advice at a business forum organised by the United States Chamber of Commerce and The Corporate Council on Africa, said that his administration would continue with the Federal Government’s privatisation programme in various sectors of the economy.