Leading telecommunication company, MTN Nigeria has launched MTN CarFi Sticks to aid subscribers’ access to internet while they are in traffic. MTN CarFi Sticks launched at the 2015 Abuja Motor Fair sponsored by MTN, is the first of its kind to be introduced in Nigeria.

LAGOS—The Conference of 57 Local Government Executive Secretaries in Lagos State has described as untrue the statement by the former Minister of Works and chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Adeseye Ogunlewe accusing Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of deducting 80 per cent from funds accruing to Local Governments in the state.

THERE are indications that the newly retired officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are still in the service of the agency following the absence a board that should rectify and approve their retirement.

LAGOS—Saka Hammed, the 19-year-old student of Gaskia College, Amukoko, Lagos, who allegedly stabbed a prefect, Saheed Jimoh, to death on Wednesday for punishing him over lateness, has been arrested by police.

THE UMUZOCHA community in Awka, which owns the largest part of the Anambra State capital territory, is battling the state government over alleged non-payment of compensation for the land acquired in the area since the creation of new Anambra State in 1991.

Holders Nigeria have reached their second consecutive final thanks to a thrilling 4-2 victory against Mexico in Concepcion. Mexico opened the scoring through Kevin Magana, with stunning efforts from Kelechi Nwakali and Orji Okwonkwo seeing the African side ahead. Diego Cortes’s remarkable solo effort levelled matters, before Osinachi Ebere and Victor Osimhen’s late record-equalling penalty […]

BENIN—THE hunt for the daredevil armed robbers, who attacked two banks at Igarra, headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, seems to be yielding fruits as two of the suspected bandits were arrested in the bushes of the community yesterday by the police in collaboration with vigilante group members in the area.

Last week, I criticised the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, for suspending the Chairman (Mr Atedo Peterside), Group Managing Director (Mrs Sola David-Borha) and other senior personnel of Stanbic IBTC.

WITH a seeming arrogant posture, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, on October 26 posted on its website the outcome of its investigation of Stanbic IBTC for alleged infractions claimed by minority shareholders of the company, fronting as the Trusted Shareholders Association of Nigeria, TSAN and bankrolled by the Mahtani brothers of the Churchgate Group.

Former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, in this interview spoke on the disappearance of the case file of Dele Giwa’s murder, his strained relationship with Senator George Akume and Governor Samuel Ortom, his new assignment at the Public Complaint Commission and lots more

Organisers of the Aba Marathon slated for December 20 have revealed that this year’s edition will be fun filled even as the prize monies have been increased.

President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 governors have been invited for the final burial rites of the late matriach of Awolowo, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.

PAUL, the youngest of the six children of Deogratias and Asteria Rutagambwa Kagame was two when his family fled their homestead in 1959. That was the year of the Peasant Uprising in Rwanda which became known as the Rwandan Revolution. That uprising brought to fore the ethnic tension in that country which eventually resulted in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

The Federal Government, yesterday issued Akwa Ibom Ibom Power Plant, licence to generate additional 495 megawatts of electricity.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, went before the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal to challenge the nullification of the governorship election it conducted in Rivers State on April 11, 2015.