For residents of different communities in Lagos Sate, the rainy season is always a period to dread. It comes with many challenges and mishaps, ranging from flooding, building collapse, eroded roads, traffic chaos, among others. When these happen, people are given to lamentations and telling tales of woes, especially as many roads become impassable for motorists, homes are flooded, property worth fortunes are destroyed and human lives lost in some cases.

Umuobi Ikwerede in Ohaji/Egbema local government area of Imo State is boiling, following the dangerous activities of cult groups in the area.

IN 2013, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, conferred the award of Cross of St Augustine on the Bishop of Kaduna Diocese, Anglican Communion, the Most Rev. Josiah Idowu-Fearon.

Yenagoa—The crisis of confidence rocking All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, took a new twist as aggrieved leaders of the party announced the dissolution of the Chief Tiwe Orunimighe-led State Executive Committee, SEC, over alleged anti-party activities and diversion of presidential campaign funds donated by some state governors to delegates from the state.

MAIDUGURI— No fewer than 10 people were feared dead with 7 others sustaining gunshots wounds when suspected members of Boko Haram invaded nearby surrounding villages of Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State.

Prof. Sylvester Monye served as Special Adviser to the president in the immediate past administration before taking his leave late in 2014 to seek the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Monye was a guest of Channels Television last Monday during which he fielded questions pertaining to the financial affairs of the Jonathan administration

Lagos—Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has expressed joy at his acquittal in respect of the money laundering case against him.

ASABA—Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, said that the move to amend the law setting up the state Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, was to make it more effective in delivering its mandate.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, stated that the country lost crude oil and other petroleum products valued at N59.597 billion to pipeline vandalism in 2014.

ABUJA—NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, asked all the Senators and members of House of Representatives elected on its platform to elect their principal officers through the caucuses in the National Assembly.

COLD war between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Ibadan Chapter and the Non-Academic Staff of the University worsened yesterday as the former complained that they were chased out of lecture rooms by the striking members of NASU.

By Ochereome Nnanna WHEN at first I heard that traders all over Anambra State had shut down the markets and were protesting over alleged plans by the Federal Government to send Boko Haram convicts to jails in the state, I did not take it serious. There are things you hear and you simply dismiss them […]

DOCKWORKERS’ branch of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday, protested months of unpaid salaries by one of the onshore Stevedoring companies, threatening to cripple ports activities over the unpaid wages.

In the wake of incessant road accidents in Ogun State, Governor Ibikunle Amosun is set to work towards criminalising traffic offences to adequately bring erring motorists to justice.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has halted moves by the Federal Government to extradite Senator Buruji Kashamu to the United States of America, USA, to face a drug-related charge.