Rolls-Royce Motor Cars reaffirmed its mantle as the undisputed pinnacle of bespoke automotive luxury with the unveiling of Phantom Coupé Tiger, Ghost Golf and Wraith ‘Inspired by Music’ at Show, on a day that also saw the Rolls-Royce Dawn make its first ever public appearance in the region.

MY family journeyed some 390 miles (about 630 kilometres) in roughly six hours to visit with and welcome 2016 in the company of my long-time friend, Tony Aduro, and his wonderful family in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Tony and I go way back to our days in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 1990s when we served as officers in the Association of Nigerians in Kenya. Fate brought us back together in the United States and we have kept in touch.

LAGOS—Pandemonium broke out when some policemen hired by some land grabbers invaded and attacked the serene village of Iragon community in the Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State.

PORT HARCOURT—The people of Elibrada community in Emohua Clan, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State trooped out Monday dancing and singing following the killing of two cultists that allegedly had been terrorizing the community.

ABEOKUTA—Seven persons yesterday lost their lives with 17 others on danger list as a result of an accident that occurred at the Sagamu/Iperu Remo Junction of the Lagos – Ore – Benin Expressway.

Worried about the huge challenge of convincing Nigerians to become bone marrow donors, a Pan African bone marrow and cord blood donor recruitment group, ARA is targeting 30,000 Nigerians and other Africans as bone marrow donors by 2018. Speaking at maiden edition of the bone marrow drive/launch of the Foundation in Lagos, the Founder, ARA, Ronke Babalakin said the goal is to provide the logistics and infrastructure necessary to ensure the seamless recruitment of bone marrow donors in cities all over Africa including Nigeria.

THe Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung has read the riot act to the contractor handling the rehabilitation of the swimming pool complex of the National Stadium in Lagos, Joseph Odebeatu, alias Ojex to complete the project before the end of the first quarter of the year or face the consequences.

As part of activities to mark World AIDS Day 2015, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, embarked on a 4-day free HIV Counselling and Testing, HCT, as well as tests for diabetes, hypertension and malaria and deworming of children in Shomolu Local Government Area of Lagos State.

The African Sun Times, Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in America, has announced Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as its International Persons of the Year.

PRESENTLY, Bayelsa State is under a situation of suspended animation characterised by eruption of violence particularly in the politically fertile Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. The December 5 and 6 2015 governorship election was, indeed, declared inconclusive following tension between the two major political parties, the APC and PDP, and the polls in the Ijaw area rescheduled for January 9, 2016. While the mutual finger-pointing war continues, the Joint Task Force which was responsible for security during the polls has alleged complicity on the part of the PDP and the state governor, Seriake Dickson in the violence that torpedoed the election.