ABEOKUTA—The Divisional Police Officer, Kemta Division of the Ogun State State Police command, who allegedly assaulted a woman that subsequently lost her two-month pregnancy, has been removed and summoned by the state’s Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali.

LAGOS—An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, yesterday, remanded in prison custody two men, Elijah Adeyemi and Adebola Obafunwa, who were docked over illegal possession of arms and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

That was the question addressed to Professor Ibidapo-Obe, former Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, by Bayo Akinloye of PUNCH. The interview was published on October 25, 2015. Professor Ibidapo-Obe’s answer was as instructive as it was mostly evasive. The reason for the attempt not to accept the conclusions of a study by an organization like Mo Abraham, which has no reason to denigrate Nigeria, is easy to understand. It is difficult for anyone who had been a leading member of a sector of our society to avoid feeling partly responsible for the situation in which Nigeria finds itself.

THE Federal Government has given the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, the mandate of reducing the level of substandard goods in the country to 15 percent by the first quarter of next year, Director General of SON, Joseph Odumonu, has said.

THE governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Timipre Sylva was conspicuously absent at the governorship election debate convened for the candidates of all the participating political parties in forthcoming election in Bayelsa State.

Scores of angry subscribers, yesterday, attacked the two MTN offices located on the ever busy Wetheral and World Bank roads in Owerri.

Once the candidates for the controversial Kogi State governorship election emerged from the primaries of the two main political parties – the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, most analysts concluded that cruel fate had foisted two irredeemably horrible choices on Kogites.

THE Chief Executive Officer, Lafarge Africa Plc, Mrs. Adepeju Adebajo, has charged stakeholders in education sector to invest greatly in children’s education as that it is the only way a nation can guarantee future leaders.

Five of the continent-wide African Leadership Universities, ALU, meant to train and develop thousands of young Africans who will develop the continent technologically, economically and educationally have been earmarked to be located in Nigeria.

IMAGINE that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.