A Federal High Court sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, has adjourned to October 10, 2016, the hearing in the suit by Houseboat Owner’s Coalition, seeking an order for the payment of N3 billion in respect of their houseboats hired by the Ministry of Defence.

LAGOS—Months after Queens College, Lagos, made headlines when a teacher in the school was accused of molesting a Junior Secondary School, JSS 2 girl, there is another controversy brewing in Cayley College, Lagos, following the alleged suspension of one Medad Akpoterabor.

There are strong indications that the courts in Imo State may continue to remain shut, following the inability or unwillingness of the feuding parties to reach a truce.

Let us get value for the budgeted $1 billion Ogoni cleanup fund. How? By meeting and complying with standard hazardous waste characterization rules of toxicity, reactivity, corrosivity, and ignitability.

Love, power, money and thwarted dreams — all set to an Afrobeat. Those are the essential ingredients of “Wakaa! The Musical”, a Nigerian stage production set to hit London later this month.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has again appealed to striking workers in the state to suspend the one-month-old industrial action, calling on their leaders to meet with government representatives to share the available fund in the state’s coffers.

How time flies.Twenty years ago, the world celebrated Nigeria here. 24 hours after Chioma Ajunwa won Nigeria’s first and only individual Olympic gold medal, the only Dream Team Nigeria ever had dazzled to Nigeria’s second gold.

Abuja—The leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Inspector General of Police to immediately order the arrest and prosecution of the former national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and Matthew Iduoriyekemwen for disobeying court judgment and charge them for contempt.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has stated that it is working on a number of initiatives that would help develop communities around the country, improve the lives of Nigerians and help prepare youths to cope with the challenges of an increasingly difficult world.

Former Delta State Commissioner of Police, Udom Ekpo Udom, has expressed worry over the steady decline in the standard of education in Nigeria and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the anti-corruption war to the education sector to sanitise the system.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said yesterday that no bank in the country was distressed.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari was using a corrupt Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to stamp out corruption in Nigeria, insisting that the President must start the corruption fight from his party and immediate aides since charity begins at home.

Rapper 50 Cent, whose once-extravagant lifestyle crumbled after a failed business deal and a lawsuit over a sex tape, received court approval Wednesday to get out of bankruptcy.

THE African Union, AU, is set to unveil a common electronic passport that will grant holders visa-free access to all 54 member-countries of the group.

The extended public holidays has stalled a scheduled hearing of an application seeking to stay execution of judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja that sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State from office.