Our erudite columnist, Dr Ugoji Egbujo, after visiting some Nigerian cities since the inception of the new administration, last week went to Benin Republic by road.

NATIONAL Industrial Court, NIC, Lagos Division, has restrained the management of La Cesera Company Plc , makers of La casera soft drink and other consumables, from terminating the employment of its workers over unionisation dispute with the National Union of Food Beverage, Tobacco Employees, NUFBTE.

Central Bank Governor Mr Godwin Emefiele yesterday urged banks in the country not to panic following the decision of the Federal Government to move all the accounts of government parastatals into a Treasury Single Account at the central bank. In an interview with Reuters yesterday, the CBN boss gave an assurance that he was ready to inject liquidity if needed into the interbank market.

The Yoruba and Igbo factions of a major association in the Olugbede Model Market in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos are poised for a showdown which could result to loss of lives and property if not nipped in the bud.

A well publicized church programme purposely organized by one of the old generation churches- the Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, in Epinmi in Akoko South East area of Ondo state to exorcise the devil and its cohorts said to be tormenting the people in the agrarian community was disrupted by masquerades as the organizers were ironically dealt with instead mid-way into the spiritual meeting.

Tragedy struck at Ejigbo, Lagos State, on Tuesday afternoon after an SUV rammed into a store, killing an 8-year-old child.

WE here had a good meeting. Is your President happy? This was   a very senior French cabinet official talking to a Nigerian diplomat, shortly after a one hour tête-à-tête between our visiting President Muhammadu Buhari and the host French President Francois Hollande. They felt the pulse of each other behind closed doors. From this […]

A police corporal attached to Isheri-Oshun Division in Lagos, Wednesday night, fired a shot at a moving tricycle along Isheri/ Ijegun road, killing the wife of the operator, Idongesit Ekpo, on the spot.

UNIDENTIFIED gunmen early Wednesday morning abducted the 3-year-old son of an accountant at Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara, in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State.

Operatives of the of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday arrested a Bureau De Change operator and five other suspected money laundering syndicate for swallowing $156,000 (N31, 083, 000.00) at Excel Oriental Hotel along Airport Road, Lagos.

Perhaps, never before in history had Europe faced the suffocating number of displaced persons desperately knocking on its doors to be let in. Wars, religious extremism, repressive regimes and battered economies are responsible for the uprooting of over 19 million people worldwide, especially Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

The Deputy Managing Director of The SUN Newspaper, Mr Steve Nwosu, whose wife,, Toyin , was released 72 hours after abduction by robbers who invaded their Ago , Lagos residence, has said no ransom was paid.

IT is interesting that Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba’s purported plan to decamp to APC has generated enough discourse lately. Little wonder quasi and pseudo political pundits have trivialized the issue which received immense and enormous applause amongst Cross Riverians as Senator Ndoma-Egba was not the only that was one shut out of PDP.

Following the formal announcement by the kingmakers in Ile-Ife requesting nomination of candidates from the Giesi Ruling House for the selection process of the new Ooni of Ife, an Osogbo high court yesterday granted the Lafogido Ruling House of Ile-Ife an injunction restraining the Ife king makers and Osun state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesolsa from allowing the Giesi ruling house from presenting candidates for the vacant stool of the Ooni of Ife.

FORMER first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has begun reconciling and mobilising aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, groups in the state to drum up support for the re-election of incumbent governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson.