Residents of Alaguntan Community Development Area,CDA, in Agbado Oke-odo Local Council Development Area of Lagos recently appealed to the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company,IKEDC, to put an end to the prevailing blackout in the community that started over two months ago.

OWERRI — IT was a black weekend for men of the Nigerian Army, when their Toyota Hilux double cabin van had a head-on collision with a truck that claimed the lives of four soldiers along Owerri-Aba federal highway.

ACCORDING to Wikipedia: “A saint is a person who is recognised as having an exceptional degree of holiness, or likeness to God.” In other words, a saint is beyond human, he is in the spiritual realm and infallible. He cannot be faulted because all he does is right in line with the traits of the Almighty God. Who can question the Almighty God? Because of this, man has decided to capitalise on the phrase, “I am no saint”, to explain away his frailties.

A REMARKABLE aftermath of the passage and interment of the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief Mrs. Hannah Idowu Dideolu, HID, Awolowo was the bond of friendship and solidarity that it elicited even among erstwhile foes. Perhaps nothing gave fillip to this pervading spirit of camaraderie than the commendable gesture by the family of the last Premier of the defunct Western region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola.

Lagos—A 35-year-old clearing agent, Isiaka Muritala, who was alleged to have obtained the sum of N4.1million from his customer under the pretext of clearing two cars for him, was, yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

European Union (EU) has expressed concern over mixed response from foreign investors into Nigeria due to consistent drop in the country’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from $8.9 billion in 2011to $4.9bn in 2014.

JOS- THE National Metallurgical Development Centre, NMDC, has trained over 40 graduates under the foundry practice programme for youth empowerment of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN.

ABA—The lifeless body of a 19-year-old teenager, identified as Obinna Igboke, has been found floating in a lagoon located opposite Umuocham Girls Secondary School, Aba, Abia State, barely three days after he allegedly drowned in the river.

FOR the second time in two weeks, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared an election inconclusive. The Commission, yesterday, declared the Bayelsa State Governorship election inconclusive, just as did in the Kogi election.

The President, ABC Transport Plc, Mr. Frank Nneji; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Macqintus Computers, Chief Felix Chukwu; General Manager SMEs Fidelity Bank, Mr. Ken Opara and Prof. Mrs. Carol Opara, of University of Lagos are eminent Mbaise Professionals billed to be honoured during the 6th Mbaise Professionals end of the year get-together, holding on Saturday, December 12, 2015, at at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos.

The All Progressives Congress’ (APC) deputy governorship candidate in Kogi, Mr Abiodun Faleke, says he will not make himself available for swearing in with Alhaji Yahaya Bello on January 27, 2016.

Nigeria and 151 member countries of the UN General Assembly on Monday in New York voted `Yes’ for the prohibition, development, production, stockpiling/use of chemical weapons and their destruction.

President of Ijaw Youths Council, Mr Udengs Eradiri on Monday said the decision to cancel the rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa may have averted crises.

THE Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Monday, shutdown the Central Zonal Offices of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in Warri, Delta State.

As the ’ember’ months get under way, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Akwa Ibom State has warned that motorists who overload their vehicles would be apprehended and sentenced instantly after trial in the corps’ mobile court.