Former president of the apex Igbo Socio-Cultural Organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan’s government on grounds of marginalization of the South East in the scheme of things.

Enyimba win 4-0 on aggregate: Pillars win 5-0 on aggregate

North Korea is set to lift a four-month ban on foreign tourism imposed over concerns of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, a Beijing-based tour group said Monday. Koryo Tours, one of the handful of agencies running regular tours to the North, said it had been contacted by the National Tourism Administration in Pyongyang with news that there was “some movement” over the current travel ban.

Russia has been changed forever by the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov a day after thousands marched through central Moscow in his memory. “The reaction to the murder of Boris Nemtsov turned out to be as extraordinary as the politician himself,” wrote the Kommersant business daily in a front page article that ran alongside a photo of Nemtsov carried at Sunday’s memorial march.

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Oyingbo, Lagos State has remanded an oil marketer, Otunba Aremu Lola-Anjorin, in prison custody pending when he is able to meet his bail applications over alleged N36.7 million fraud. The oil marketer and his firm, Bonvic Gold Oil Limited, were charged before Magistrate O. Olatunji, on a four-count charge of obtaining money under false pretence, stealing and issuance of dud cheque.