A major crisis is looming in the nation’s maritime industry, as exporters of containerized goods will not be able to ship their consignments out of the country from July 1 when the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, commences implementation of compulsory Verified Gross Mass, VGM.

A 13-year-old girl, yesterday, gave a chilling account of how she was abducted, raped and threatened with death by a suspected serial rapist arrested, weekend, by policemen attached to Ilasamaja division in Lagos. The incident, according to the teenager identified simply as Onyinye, a Junior Secondary School 3 student of a school around Ilasamaja area, occurred on May 24.

With 28.9 percent of Nigerians hypertensive, Nigerian medical experts have raised alarm over an impending epidemic of hypertension, stroke, diabetes and other Non Communicable Diseases, A Consultant Cardiologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Dr. Casmir Amadi, who spoke at a symposium on cardiovascular diseases organised by Kraft Heinz Company, manufacturers of Complan, said cardiovascular diseases have become a public health concern.

“I swear wahala dey. No money, no food, no light, no water,” lamented Julie, a passenger in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle. “A derica cup of rice is now N250 up from N150; small paint bucket of garri is N650, tomato nko? No go area. God please we need your intervention before we perish oo.”

Quran Chapter 2 verse 185 specifically allows those who are travelling to skip fasting on the condition that they make up for the days missed later.

Former Super Eagles coach, late Shaibu Amodu is being owed N25million in salaries, sign-on-fees and house rent by the government of Edo State before his death last weekend.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will today arraign a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to the former president Goodluck Jonathan, Warpamo Dudafa, before a Lagos Federal High Court on 23-count charge bordering on alleged N5.145,004 billion fraud.

THE threat of religious disorder that would have resulted from Christian leaders in Osun State asking Christian students to appear in church service robes in their classrooms, yesterday, was minimal as a result of frantic last minute efforts by security agencies to douse the tension that it would have generated.

The decision was taken in line with the Fiscal Sustainability Plan, FSP, which has been agreed to by the Federal Government’s economic team and state governors, to ensure prudent management of sub-national resources.

THREE years after a kidney transplant operation in India, popular Nigerian music producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Babatunde Okungbowa, better known as OJB Jezreel, died in the early hours of yesterday in a Lagos hospital. He would have been 50 years old next month.

LAGOS—A group of foreign investors, led by Pecora Capital LLC of United States, has launched a $2 billion Nigeria Infrastructure Fund for investment in key projects in the country.

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC yesterday, stormed the Ikoyi home of former Minister of State for Defence, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro and allegedly went away with some vehicles and other valuables.

One week after they were granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja, cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Robert Azibaola, and his wife, Stella, are yet to regain their freedom from Kuje Prison.

SENATORS from the six states of the North East, yesterday, sharply disagreed on where the headquarters of the proposed North East Development Commission should be located, forcing the Senate to suspend passage of the bill seeking its establishment.

BENIN—CONTRARY to reports that late Admiral Augustus Aikhomu voted four times during the 2007 governorship election in Edo State which saw former Governor Oserheimen Osunbor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emerge as the winner, a study of the electoral results has revealed that late former Chief of General Staff never voted four times.