The Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos is beginning to witness an upsurge of passengers traffic at the airport due to the forth-coming Easter celebration beginning from Friday to Sunday.

bia State Police Command’s Anti-Robbery Squad’s operatives have arrested a 27-year-old man identified as Mr. Tochukwu Nna with a substance suspected to be Indian hemp, weighing 50kg.

The university town of Nsukka was thrown into mourning, weekend, as a paint manufacturer in Umunkashi Uwani Ugwu community, Samuel Ezema, and an electrician were electrocuted.

Three persons, yesterday, suffered severe burns, when fire razed Niger Biscuits Company on Creek Road, Apapa Local Government Area, destroying property worth several millions of naira.

Commenting on yesterday’s clash at Mile 1 Police Divisional headquarters, Mrs Ibim Semenitari faulted Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in a statement by her Special Adviser on Media, Bekee Anyalewechi.

As controversy over the status of the Centenary City Project lingers, there are strong indications that the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello, may have been delibera-tely misled by certain officials of the ministry into making his recent statements before the National Assembly concerning the ongoing project.

It is regrettable, that the absence of a more salutary impact from partial implementation of earlier budgets, has seriously eroded public expectation to make Nigerians, nonchalant about this annual constitutional requirement. Unfortunately, the unfolding drama surrounding the 2016 version of this critical annual event, may not also inspire public confidence that this year’s plan will positively touch our lives.

VISION impaired Mrs. Nekpen Obasohan, wife of Mr. Jeff Obasohan, the tenant who was alleged to have set his landlord, Pa Joseph Iyen, aged 83, ablaze in his residence on Uwa Street, Benin City, in Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State, weekend, has said that her husband was not responsible for the fire incident that occured in the house.

THE orgy of violence, which characterised Saturday’s re-run polls for some federal and state legislative seats in Rivers State continued, yesterday, as the results were being collated.

A FORMER Chief Process Engineer in Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company, WRPC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Mark Williams, has stressed the need for specification in procurement, insisting that shortage of specification was responsible for building and other infrastructure failure in Nigeria.

They are the only surviving Nigerian club on the continent, and now face the task of defending the pride of the country as the journey becomes tougher following the summary crashing of Warri Wolves and Nasarawa at the weekend. This is the story of Enyimba, whose coach,

As part of crime prevention and community safety strategy,Gombe State Police Command, under the Police Community Partnership Approach to Policing project, collaborated with a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Mr. Lumi Irimiya, trained 250 unemployed youths in the production of emulsion and text coat paints. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Austin Iwah, spoke with our Crime Editor, Emma Nnadozie, on how he was able to achieve fthe eat.

Following directives by the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, men of the state’s Public Works have commenced a massive rehabilitation of 13 link roads, including that of former Governor Babatunde Fashola’s street in Surulere Local Government Area, LGA.

Let me quickly credit the Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el Rufai with the ingenuity of this headline.

For buying a baby from a 17-year-old mother, a couple, Mr and Mrs Sunday Kalu, and three child traffickers, are presently cooling their feet at the Criminal Investigation Department of Ondo State Police Command.