Mary Martin, winner of the Mercedes Benz Best Designer in Africa makes her bow on the AFWL catwalk for the first time. Innocente Messy a young Congolese designer shows us there is more to Congo fashion than the fabulous Sapeurs. Collections from Taiwan by AimeeKu and Thai designer Porjai Thai Printer is set to prove that African fashion is already inspiring Asia in a big way.

For Rose Omefe Opkodu, a 78-year-old widow who hails from Ubulu-uku town in Delta state, life has become a nightmare. The shocking news of the death of her son, Michael Opkodu recently sent cold shivers up her spine and for several days it was as if the world was descending on her.

Staff members of National Secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), want anti-graft agencies to probe activities of members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Alhaji Mohammed Kari as the Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive of the National Insurance Commission.

EDUCATION expert and the Proprietress of Ruthwiphdale Schools and Foundation, Mrs Nike Odetola, has called on the Federal Government to restructure the country’s academic curriculum as a viable measure to enhancing sustainable national development.

IT was an evening of songs dance and poetry last Saturday as Segun Akinlolu a.k.a Beautiful Nubia hosted music enthusiasts in an event tagged, “Beautiful Nubia Live in Concert.” The event, which held at the Eniobanke Arts Centre, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, saw the performing poet and prolific singer thrilled the quality guests with his evergreen indigenous songs which got them singing along, dancing and jumping their troubles away.

The Police on Friday advised members of the public using ATM at various banks to be security conscious as some criminals now disguised as customers queuing to withdraw money.

No fewer than 10 persons lost their lives in an accident involving two trucks and two commercial vehicles at Ogunmakin area of Lagos/Ibadan Expressway in Ogun on Friday.

The Ofuobu family of Ode-Itsekiri Town in the Warri Kingdom of Delta State recently lost their matriarch who died at the ripe age of 82. She lived a fruitful and illustrious life, leaving behind six children, many grand children and great-grand children. A successful trader, all her children are university graduates who equally turned out to be successful in their various professions. Her immediate and distant family members are proud of her because hers was a life worth celebrating. (Ofuobu is not the real name of the family. As a condition for granting this interview, the first son demanded that the family name not be mentioned. And on the request of this reporter, he came up with the fictitious name of Ofuobu, which literally means keep it secret in Itsekiri.)

A complainant, Ibrahim Abdullahi of Karu, Abuja on Friday showed mercy to one Ibrahim Abdullahi, who had stolen his Nokia phone valued at N22,500 when the case came up before a Grade 1 Area Court in Karu.

When we departed for this recess, it was not in the most honorable of circumstances for which I had cause to apologize to Nigerians in that behalf. Today as we resume, I am not ashamed to once again reiterate our unreserved apologies to the people of Nigeria for that unfortunate incidence and promise that we shall be the vibrant House of the Nigerian people that we are.

About 500 athletes are expected to fight for laurels as the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife hosts the 5th edition of the Nigeria Schools Of Nursing and Midwifery Games [NISONMG] The Games run from August 4—7 at the sports Complex of OAU.

The Inspector-General of Police (IG-P), Mr Slomon Arase, said in Abuja on Friday that 36,000 police officers would attend promotion courses in December.
Arase, who said this during an inspection tour of the FCT Police command, said that 4,000 Inspectors would also attend the board for promotion.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State ignited the State, Thursday, July 16th 2015, when he inaugurated his State Executive Council at the New Exco Chambers in the New Government House, a multi-billion naira architectural masterpiece built and furnished to taste by the Former governor, Sullivan Chime.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Friday urged Nigerians to learn from the examples of the party’s founding fathers and move the nation forward.