THE recent confirmation by the Senate of Prof Mahmud Yakubu as the new National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and five National Commissioners is a welcome relief.

MY people have a saying which I will tell in my “inner” Igbo dialect and then translate. We say: “leruo enya akala nari zuru ife”. When you visit someone and you are about to depart, he will usually tell you: “fare well” or “take care” or “be careful as you go”.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may have shunned entreaties from members of his party, the All Progressives Congress, to tinker with the list of committee heads which he released with a view to giving the ruling party a comfortable grip on the leadership of the lower House of parliament.

An Ejigbo Magistrate’s court in Lagos has remanded a 44-year-old man, Oluokun Olarewaju, in prison for allegedly slapping his wife’s friend, Miss Christiana Duntoye, who told his wife that she saw him with another woman.

LOOKING back on the lessons learned in the past 57 years of his life, former Minister of Transport, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, in this interview, wants Nigerians to live their lives without malice against anyone. He is also emphatic on the need for Nigeria to review its value system in order to achieve a better society for everyone.

Lagos— Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, barred the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from disrupting the activities of Stanbic IBTC Holding Plc.

LAGOS — It was celebration galore, yesterday, at the premises of First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos as management of the hospital took time out to celebrate the safe delivery of one of its own, Dr. Ada Igonoh, the female doctor who survived the dreaded Ebola virus in Nigeria.

By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA-Men of Ogun State National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have impounded two purposely-built bullion vans and a Ford bus loaded with bags and parcels of suspected Cannabis Sativa popularly known as Indian hemp. The State Commander, NDLEA, Ogun State command, Mr. Bala Fagge, while briefing journalists about the arrest and seizure, said […]

Two policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCID, narrowly escaped lynching by a mob on Monday, after a 42-year-old land speculator reportedly raised a false kidnap alarm to evade arrest.

BENIN—SIX persons, including two policemen and a private security man, were killed, Tuesday night, as daredevil robbers took over Igarra town, headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.