A number of residents of White Sand Estate in Ikotun/Igando Local Government Area, Lagos have fled the community following invasion of kidnappers in the area.

How many of you readers of this column have been obsessed with the love of a partner that is no longer interested in you? In spite of his indifference, you endlessly want to be in touch, drive past his house and stare, transfixed at the lit windows wondering if you could catch a glimpse of your replacement. Or ring him up and quickly switch off the phone immediately you hear his voice?

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja held a colourful wedding reception for his, daughter, Zahra.

THE Lagos State Government has said it would leave no stone unturned in the arrest and prosecution of people suspected to be members of commercial motorcycle Association, popularly called ‘Okada’ and miscreants for allegedly, killing zonal head of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr. Tajudeen Olatunji Bakare, while enforcing the 2012 road traffic law. It will be recalled that Thursday afternoon, like Biblical story of Stephen, Bakare was stoned to death by some miscreants and Okoda riders who were still at large as at press time.

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has reiterated that the panacea for successful diversification of Nigerian economy is constant energy and electricity supply.

In each of the six geo-political zones, the federal government built strategic grain reserves, silos that would contain 100 metric tons of grains of whatever variety – rice, beans, maize, etc

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest airline has alerted passengers of worsening aviation fuel supply leading to flights delays and some cancellations at airports across the country.

MEMBERS of the Ondo State House of Assembly have called on security agencies to wade into the boundary dispute between Atijere in Ilaje council area of the state and its neighboring Imakun community in Ogun State with a view to stopping the breakdown of law and order in the areas.

As a way of ensuring the integrity of its database and to provide easy access and retrieval of the registration records by staff and customers electronically, the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, has embarked on the rapid digitization of all legacy records into suitable electronic formats. The move, according to the commission, is aimed at revolutionizing business incorporation in Nigeria.

The West African Examinations Council,WAEC, has released the 2016 Nov/Dec West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, results. Announcing the results yesterday in Lagos, the Head of National Office, Nigeria, Mr Olu Adenipekun said that 38.50 per cent had credit pass in Mathematics and English Language.

The Pan-Northern Group, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF has described the recent call by the federal lawmakers for the removal of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr Babachir as a decoy designed to divert attention from the criminal cases hanging on their necks.

The right and most suitable way out of the economic recession currently ravaging the Nigerian economy is formulation and implementation of economic policies that will strengthen the manufacturing sector and attract foreign investors both as Foreign Direct Investors (FDI) and Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI). I take this position because, the manufacturing sector is critical to every economy across the globe and Nigeria’s case is no different.

Recently, Ozoro, the headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Areas in Delta State witnessed a unique event which impact would continue to reverberate in the educational and political circles for a long time to come. It was the commissioning of the 14,000-seat capacity stadium of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro. The stadium was completed in a record time of twelve months and was done through direct labour using the technical staff of the institution. A highly elated Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who praised to high heavens the efforts of the rector, Dr Jacob Oboreh described the sports complex as a wonderful work.

Ebonyi has taken the rigorous way knowing that we do not have a means of survival as a state. The allocation coming to Ebonyi from the Federal Government is one of the least in the country. Our Internally Generated Revenue, IGR last September was only about N7m to N8 m and allocation to the state was just N1.750billion. So, it is a dire situation.

Few expected Kenneth Imansuangbon, famed as the Rice Man to engage in his annual ritual rice distribution exercise after the intrigues that knocked him out of the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship primaries earlier in the year. Imansuangbon, however, proved sceptics wrong when he decided to continue with the distribution of rice to the less privileged members of the society irrespective of his political bearing.