Mama T. was 47, a grandmother, when she suddenly felt very sick one morning. She tried the usual self-medication that many of us normally start with. She did not get better and had to see her personal physician, who ran a series of test–malaria, typhoid, infections, etc–but they were either negative or insignificant. Finally, the doctor suggested the unthinkable: a pregnancy test. “Are you out of your mind? I’m 47 and my last child is 14,” she screamed. But the physician insisted because “there is no harm in trying.”

Ahead of commencement of this year’s edition of the annual Abuja International film festival, which holds from September 22 through 25, the festival director, Fidelis Duker has announced that the festival will be focusing on tourism as a major economic boost for the country.

“We should concern ourselves with how to develop Igbo land and not how to become a Biafra republic because that name Biafra is treasonable and you can’t have a sovereign state in an existing one. How can we destroy what we have as Nigerians in search of Biafra republic? Once we create adequate security and productivity, we shall develop Igbo land and live comfortably”.

“We are worried that the NSIWC, which participated in that negotiation could turn around to repudiate the terms of those agreements. Since the agreements have not been renegotiated, it means that the contents remain sacrosanct. We are worried that the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission in concert with the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission intend to sack all the teachers and non-teaching staff in the University Staff Schools and these are our members and bonafide universities’ staff in such schools without recourse to our unions renegotiation.

Metuh stressed that the action of the police was an affront to the ruling of the High Court, which Thursday dissolved the 22 local government councils unlawfully imposed by the immediate past administration in the state, upon which the caretaker committees were appointed by Governor Nyesom Wike.

The President of the Court of Appeal has been urged to immediately disband the Edo State National and State Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin over allegation of giving undue technicalities to judicial proceedings in place of substantial justice.

JUSTICE Olayinka Faaji of the Federal High Court, Ibadan division who is one the judges hearing the suit filed against some staff of Central Bank of Nigeria and others over alleged fraud of about N8billion has said it is the judicial system in the country that allows a counsel to openly accuse a judge of bias without any attendant consequence.

The new Commissioner of Police in Ogun state, Abdulmajeed Ali has vowed to arrest the killers of the Iyaloja of Ijebuland, Alhaja Sadiat Elewuju.

Kcee is undoubtedly one of the most consistent Afropop artistes in Nigeria. The Five Star Music artiste has released the visuals of his song Love Boat. It was shot on location in South Africa .The video focuses on a man who professes love to his woman and fights for that love.

It got to a point that school fees of our children could not be paid and we had to take undertaken with their school proprietors that their school fees would be paid as soon as salaries are paid. Luckily enough their school proprietors allowed our children to attend classes and also write their exams. To compound our problems gratuities were not also paid since our retirement since 2012.