The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has commended the Police Force, over what he described as their courage in ensuring that the three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary (BMJS), Agunfoye-Lugbusi, Ikorodu, abducted last Monday in their hostels, got a timely rescue.

Senators Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders scored key victories Saturday in their White House quests, but it was Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton who outperformed their rivals to remain the race’s undisputed frontrunners.

The three students of the Babington Macurley Junior Seminary (BMJS), Ikorodu, Lagos, who were abducted last Monday, by unknown gunmen in their school, have been rescued by the Lagos State Police Command.

President Mohammadu Buhari may have indirectly banned Nigerians from pursuing their educational career abroad.

Ankio Briggs, in this interview, comes down hard on all those involved in the abduction and sustained detention of Ese Oruru. She insists that conscious efforts should be made to protect the innocence of the girl-child in Nigeria.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has attacked the Economic and Financial CrimesCommission, EFCC, which he described as a toothless bulldog.

The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, won four out of the five local government areas of the re-run election in the Abia North Senatorial election. He recorded over 26, 000 votes and was cruising to victory until the result of Bende local government, won by former governor of the state and candidate of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, PPA, Orji Uzor Kalu.

This certainly is not the best of times for Dahiru Bala’s family, whose son, Yunusa, aka Yellow, allegedly abducted Bayelsa girl Ese Oruru, converted her to Islam and forcibly married her.The controversial abduction may have compelled the family to relax its Sharia compliant lifestyle when it let Sunday Vanguard team into its mud house located at Kauyen Tofa, to feel the pulse of Yunusa’s mother.

WASHINGTON, D.C—FOR the past two weeks, the Christian farming community in Agatu Local Government Area (LGA) in Benue State, has experienced hell on earth. From February 22 to 24, radical Islamist Fulani herder militias have invaded the county, wildly sacking whole villages destroying homes and farmlands, and murdering hundreds.

The devaluation of the naira is the talk of the town. It is on everyone’s lips. From 200 to the dollar, the naira dropped as low as 400, and then rallied again to 310. Although the government has refused to devalue the currency officially, Nigerians know it has already been devalued unofficially.

There are emerging indications that the Abia North Senatorial District re-run election, might be declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

South-East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations, SBCHROs, has accused security forces of killing 80 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and their supporters between August 30, 2015 and February 9, 2016.

The story of 37 – year – old Funmilola (Lola) Oniyelu, who alleged she was mismanaged by doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, made headlines, last week. While Lola claimed she was down with end stage renal disorder following a surgery at the hospital, LUTH management says her claim is false.

Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, is a long standing legal practitioner, notary public and an executive director of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. In this encounter, he sheds more light on the recent court judgment in favor of his group against the federal government. He concludes that all Nigerians must rise to the occasion and save the country from imminent collapse due to corruption and impunity. He also speaks on some other national issues.

Ike was feeling damned pleased with himself. As he parked the car, he whistled a cheerful tune, gathered the ’treat’ he’d bought for his family and trotted to his flat. Amidst squeals of welcome from his kids, he dolled out his presents; meat pies and doughnuts for the .kids”, a peppered quarter chicken for his wife, Remi and of course, the same piece of chicken for himself too. Remi sighed. She knew what would follow. She would be expected to fry chips to go along with the ’treats’ so that she would spend less time on the family dinner.