Jebba, in Moro local government area of Kwara State, erupted in violence during the last Eid-el-Fitri celebrations, claiming lives while property worth millions of Naira was also destroyed. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the violence followed an age-long disagreement between the faction loyal to the traditional ruler of the town ,Oba Abdulkadir Alabi Adebara, and those opposed to him, simply identified as Okedares.

Izuchukwu Ezema, 23, says he was branded an armed robber and severely beaten for passing through a road allegedly reserved for the “free- born” at his home town in Alor Uno, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Everywhere you look in Calabar, Cross River State capital, you find estates which have been abandoned due to squabbles over the sharing of inheritance. The squabbles are sometimes so fierce that machetes and dreaded charm, ekpetiaba (kills within five days), are used by desperate members of families to eliminate or subdue siblings in order to take ownership or the lion share of estates.

Charles Awurum is one of the highly rated comic-actors in Nigeria any mother would want for a son-in-law. But this was not to be as the mother of his ex-girlfriend rejected him after he proposed to her daughter and went ahead to fix a date for their traditional wedding. Feeling rejected and heartbroken, Awurum later found his wife in a church, and, today, he’s better off for it. Ten years down the line, and with three big boys to show for the success of his marriage, Awurum can only be grateful to his maker for turning his Creator into dancing. He recounts his story in this encounter.

Virtually all the communities in Benue State have become theaters of war, no thanks to the activities of suspected herdsmen who, in the last few years, have been killing, raping, stealing and occupyings part of the vast land that makes up the agrarian state. The invasion has continued despite the outcry by the locals. Today, majority of the inhabitants of the affected communities have become refugees in their own land, thus abandoning their farming activities.

It depends. If Nigerians want restructuring, I have no problems with that. But it can’t be one part of the country, it must be holistic. Then, there must be a proposal, there must be constitutional amendment, there is referendum to be held before we can be talking of restructuring. Recently, Britain exited from the European Union, EU, the people didn’t fight. There was no life lost in the whole drama. Again, I don’t think we should be dwelling too much on oil. The so-called oil is gradually becoming non-fashionable. Other sources of energy are emerging everyday. Time would come when nobody would be talking about oil anymore. Meanwhile, find out the quantity of the reserves of oil in the North,you will be shocked at what we have. It is much more than what you can imagine.

I think people just try to rationalise corruption but we all know what corruption is. If you are driving on the road and you pay a policeman money to avoid prosecution, that is petty corruption. If you are in public office and you use that office for private gain, we know that is corruption. So, it is in an attempt to give a veneer of legality to corruption that we pretend we do not know what corruption is but we do. We know the people who are thieves even in our traditional societies, and we also know that those people who are taking things that dosn’t belong to them are engaging in corruption.

Amid the official pronouncement that Nigeria’s economy is in recession and increase in Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 12 percent to 14 percent by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), an economist is calling for increase in local production of goods as one of the ways to force down per unit cost, for the country to recover from recession and high inflation rate of 16.5 percent.

It is no longer news that Bentley has started building Sport Utility Vehicles, SUV, what is news today is that the powerful SUV from Bentley, the Bentayga has been given a special touch by STARTech for the first time. The new Bentley Bentayga sets new standards in the luxury SUV market and is thus the perfect basis for individual customization that fulfills customer requests to a tee. The first refined variant of the British all-wheel-drive car in the world comes from STARTech, renounced for car make over across the world. Sportier and more elegant.

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in 2012, released a report tagged, ‘At a Glance: Nigeria’. The report stated: “Nigeria has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world. One in seven children dies before her or his fifth birthday.” It noted further that in Nigeria, clean water was hard to come by in northern Nigeria and singled out the General Hospital, Katsina as one health facility among several others in northern Nigeria where ‘half a dozen infants were being treated for severe malnutrition problems.”

Right from the onset, we had always stepped up our emergency preparedness and response, and, in view of the advice from the Office of the Security Adviser to the president concerning the high level of flood that will occur in some states which include Lagos, we have stepped up high level of preparedness at our two relief camps; the relief and emergency camp at Agbowa in Lagos East and the one at Igando, Lagos West.

The Nigerian U-23 National Team returned to training on Friday evening, having skipped their workouts for about two days according to reports by Allnigeriasoccer.com.

Nigeria’s national basketball team, the D’Tigers are set to take on the USA Men’s National Team on the August 2 as part of the USA Basketball Showcase. Kwesé Free Sports, which is part of Econet Media, has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA Network Service) to broadcast the game live at 01:00am Nigerian time on the 2nd of August.

With only a few hours to departure of the Nigerian delegate to the Rio 2016 Olympics, some of the athletes who qualified to represent the country are yet to get their air ticket.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) became the second sports body to ban the entire Russian team from participating in the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Russia’s track & field team had been excluded earlier.