National Assembly, NA has been charged to speedy up the passage of maritime related bills before it to ensure that Federal Government’s efforts at exploiting the potentials in sector becomes a reality.

The people of Igede, the third largest ethnic tribe in Benue State, have decried what they described as gross marginalization and neglect by the state government in the last 16 years of democracy in the country.

The Niger State government is to build another 1,000 units of houses made up of 500 two- bedroom bungalow, 200 three bedroom units, among others, at Maikunkele near Minna and Suleja in the Suleja Local Government Area of the state.

SOMETIME in May 2014, a prominent businessman, identified as Chief Bright Igwegbu, was shot dead by gunmen at the Mile 2 area of Lagos. The bizarre manner in which Igwegbu was murdered heightened the need to heed the call that Mile 2 should be given a special kind of policing, having become a hot bed of crimes in Lagos.

The Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria, APBN has called on government to accelerate the industrialisation of Nigeria by providing the conducive atmosphere.

Holding an audience spellbound at an event as big as Vanguard Personality of the Year Awards is not a mean task. But the story was different last Saturday night. Thousands of guests who thronged the convention hall of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, venue of the prestigious awards night, had every reason to sit back while the event lasted.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor, yesterday, said he did not shun the peace meeting which was held at the instance of the state Police Command where politicians signed a peace pact on Wednesday.

THE Edo Youth Empowerment Forum, EYEF, a socio-political organisation in Edo State, has faulted the comment by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, that he was instrumental to the coming of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as governor of the state.

TOP Nigeria’s entertainers including Genevieve Nnaji, P-square and Don Jazzy have exclusively made the list of Most Influential Igbo Personalities, otherwise known as MIIP among other wave making celebrities of Igbo extraction who are in the showbiz industry.

As Nigerians last Sunday, February 1st, joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2015 World Hijab Day, WHiD, Muslim Public Affairs Centre, MPAC has called on Nigerians to desist from persecuting Muslim women and girls because they wear hijab, saying “rather, treat them with courtesy.”