Lagos—Justice Raliat Adebiyi, of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, remanded a driver, Samuel Moradeyo in prison custody over alleged armed robbery and murder.

LAGOS—THERE was mild drama at a customary court sitting at Agboyi, Ketu, when, the President of the court, O.T Williams slammed a respondent, Mr Jonathan Mbadihe with contempt of court. Mbadihe was dragged to court by his wife, Amakaý, who is seeking the dissolution of their 17 year old marriage, on the grounds that her estrange husband always steals her money, does not care for the family financially and physically, threat her life, no more love and also for taking their 16 year old daughter to an unknown destination for over six years.

A gale of retrenchment yesterday swept through Osun State as no fewer than 82 workers of Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun, were sacked by the management of the state-owned institution.

The Nigerian Customs Service will next year organize a high powered summit in the South-East, preferably in Imo State to interact with the South-East Governors, traders and businessmen of Igbo extraction following the agreement reached by the governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) that such a parley has become necessary following the fact that more than eighty percent (80%) of importers or businessmen who deal with customs are from the South-East.

WORKERS at Wellington Hotel, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, protested against men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for defying a court order to vacate the hotel they had shut down and occupied since August 27.

Delta State House of Assembly has warned the new governing board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, against embarking on programmes that have no positive effect on oil bearing communities in the state.

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.