Farmers in Jigawa state have been promised of buy back of their excess produce by the state government after harvesting this season as the farmers expect bumper harvest.

RELIGIOUS bodies in Lagos State are currently divided over the implementation of Court of Appeal judgment, last Thursday on the use of Hijab, (Muslim headscarf) in public schools. While the Muslims under the aegies of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, MSSN, have written to the State Government demanding implementation, the Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria,CAN, has warned against implementation of the judgment.

Lagos state commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Folorunsho Folarin – Coker, said that the One Lagos brand campaign will showcase the true spirit of Lagos through different creative expressions.

Only God knows how many unsuspecting patients that one Mr. Akilapa Johnson, a 26-year-old secondary school certificate holder, who never attended medical school for any training, has sent to early graves through his crude method of aborting pregnancies.

It was a good feeling when Ikechukwu Ofoje introduced me as a guy he played with in Nigeria and ovation followed.

Ahead of GOtv Boxing Night 8, boxers scheduled to fight at the event have been threatening to flatten their respective opponents in a few rounds.

Lagos—Members of some Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs and petty traders, yesterday, stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly, protesting against the state government’s ban on street trading in the state.

A WEEK ago, I wrote a piece, “Lunacy and bloodbath in Turkey”. It was my analysis of the Turkish government’s insane reaction to the July 15 attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria’s, lCSAN, will be honouring deserving Nigerians with honorary fellowship awards for the first time, as part of activities marking its golden jubilee.

A supposedly peaceful protest by students of Nasarawa State Polytechnic over the killing of their colleague by a driver in Lafia, claimed two more lives yesterday with several others injured as the students engaged police in a gun battle.

ABUJA — In compliance with the agreement with the Federal Government, MTN Group has said it was now set to enlist its Nigerian-based operations in the Nigeria’s stock exchange in 2017 market season.

Just over a week after she blazed into controversy for plagiarizing Michelle Obama, the website of Donald Trump’s third wife Melania mysteriously vanished following questions about her university education.

Nigerian canoeist, Jonathan Akinyemi has arrived in Rio, Brazil ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games which begins in the Brazilian City of Rio on August 5.

WARRI—GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has charged youths of Ekpan community in Uvwie Local Government Area, of the state, not to disrupt the pace of work as Chevron Nigeria Limited flags off a project to provide Surgical Theatre and Consultation Rooms at Ekpan General Hospital in the council.

Former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Mrs Florence Ita-Giwa, has reminded the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, that the President is a president to all Nigerians and not to just the All Progressives Congress, APC, and as such, the Bakassi people would continue to seek his assistance in their proper resettlement.