Palpable fear has gripped residents of Ogun State, especially those who live at border communities over the incessant bloody clashes between men of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS and suspected smugglers. A lot of lives have been lost while many have been severely injured in the border communities in Ogun state as a result of clashes whenever the smugglers clashed with customs officials.

Former Nigeria international Sam Sodje has said that the Super Eagles need a top foreign coach to return the Super Eagles to the top.

NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has appealed to Nigerians to take the difficulties that might arise as a result of the new pump price of fuel as a sacrifice for a better future.

er Egbunkonye-Ogbue and Gloria Egbunkonye are twin sisters merging individual talents to emerge one of Nigeria’s most creative, wanted milliners. Amid dwindling demand for hats, the twin sisters have channeled their skills in basic hat making into a modern, trendy line of millinery—fascinators and hatinators. Their enterprise, Sisterhood Crafties, has garnered thousands of fans on social media; yet, for the University of Benin alumni, this is only the beginning. Woman’s Own was with them.

IN the early 70s when engineering was still perceived as the boys’ club, the only black girl studying for a degree in Civil Engineering in one of the world’s most respected institutions, Columbia University, USA, was a Nigerian. That girl is today 65-year-old Engr.(Mrs)Mayen Adetiba, an icon who has led the engineering profession at different times, both in Nigeria and beyond.

AN Umuahia Federal High Court presided over by Justice Daniel Osiagor has nullified the election of Mr. Kelechi Onuzurike, representing Umuahia North state constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, saying he was not the authentic candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the election.

IN a world where strenuous, highly technical and intellectual jobs were considered the exclusive preserve of boys while girls were wired and advised, to think only of professions that required less muscular power, it’s can be quite amazing how women folks have evolved over time.

YEARS back, the makeup and beauty industry in Nigeria was not in existence because the territory was new and there was a lot of cynicism surrounding it. Those days only celebrities and the fashionistas wore makeup.

Renaissance Capital Limited said the Federal Government needs to initiate policies that will attract long term investment into the country.

One person was, yesterday, confirmed dead while others sustained injuries when a container fell on adjoining shanties during relocation of containers at Sifax Container Terminal, Ijora, Lagos.

THE 2016 edition of the Access Bank-UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament is scheduled to hold in Kangimi Resort, Kaduna, from May 25 to June 5, 2016.

The leadership of Inikorogha and Bafan communities in Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, affected by the recent pipeline attacks by militants, have pledged to support the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Nigerian Gas Company, NGC, to maintain the existing cordial relationship between parties.

THE federal government had announced a new fuel pricing regime which had sent the pump price to an all time high of N145 per litre, and in some places far above that. This development was a culmination of the various economic crises that had attended the present government since inception.

AS I write, President Muhammadu Buhari is in London attending the first Anti-Corruption Summit that has ever been hosted in the United Kingdom.

UNEASY calm presently pervades the 17 year old Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, owned by the Ondo State Government. In the last one month, all has not been well with the institution following a disagreement among the university management, students and the Akungba community, which hosts the institution. Named after the former governor of the state, Chief Adekunle Ajasin, the institution has been enmeshed in avoidable crisis in the last one month.