The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday re-arraigned a former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and one of his former aides, Chief Waheed Akanbi, over alleged N4.7billion fraud before Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Osogbo—Justice Adedotun Onibokun of an Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife, yesterday, sentenced a couple, Mr. Fatai Jimoh and Mrs Lateefat Jimoh, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

Five suspected election materials snatchers, allegedly arrested during last Saturday’s national and state legislative re-run elections in Rivers State, were paraded last night in Abuja by police authorities.

THE remains of foremost business mogul and patriarch of the Ibru family, Olorogun Michael Ibru, were, yesterday, laid to rest at his Agbarha-Otor country home, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, amidst encomiums and tributes.

Dr (Mrs) Pauline Obikaonu was one phenomenal bride’s mum to behold. Hanging around her daughter’s wedding day with intense attention tells how much she is attached to her children. She lost her husband at the prime of her blissful marriage and moved on to see that all her children get the best attention within her capacity.

Working women in Lagos have become more sophisticated than ever, and while their predecessors made a blind beehive for the glass ceiling, today’s corporates have ambitions beyond the boardroom, one of the strongest of which is the wish to be in the best physical shape possible.

Abductors of Ebunoluwa, the wife of Venerable Ayodeji Fagbemi, General Secretary, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, are reportedly demanding N20 million ransom.

THERE must be an outbreak of Keynesian economists in Nigeria. Suddenly, they are showing up on the idea of our tolling policy.

John Keynes (1883-1946) was a classical economist who had a soft spot for full employment. For him, the people must be employed, even where it meant getting them into what might ordinarily look like the absurd cycle of pit digging:

Determined to enhance qualitative education and provide standard welfare facilities in the Oil producing Areas of Delta State, the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, through the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, recently Commissioned six classrooms blocks in Abalagada Secondary School, Four Twin residential bungalows and an ultra-modern multi-purpose hall all in Alabagada community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area of the state.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has described essential health commodities and accurate data as critical components that make healthcare system work in any society. The Minister said without these commodities, no matter the number of human resources available the health system would not function effectively.

A 24-year-old man, Joseph Onafusi, was yesterday taken before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing 100 live turkeys and 40 cockerels.

To say the mother/daughter relationship is complicated would be gross understatement. It starts out simple enough—mother with absolute control, daughter absolutely dependent—and just as daughter develops the power of speech, that blissful, asymmetrical power structure begins to disintegrate. Soon daughter goes off to nursery school, taking those first steps to becoming her very own person. Blink your eyes and she is off to higher institution, and that last thread of childhood, strained and stretched thin, is ready to snap.

As part of its commitment to social, economic and educational development in Nigeria, PZCussons Foundation has announced the commencement of the 4th edition of its Chemistry Challenge 2016/2017 with the theme ‘Be A Winner’.

An indigenous software developing company, Norak Technologies Limited, has unveiled plans to deploy its school management solution called Acadasuite to 6, 000 schools across Africa in the next five years.

I CLOSED last week with this key point, namely: that the ‘freedom of the press’ –ironically- does not belong to the press. That media ethicists say it is a ‘public trust’ reposed in the media to be enjoyed not by the media, but by the people. And that although journalists must be constantly alert to see that “the public’s business is conducted in public”, they must also “be vigilant against all who would exploit the press for selfish purposes, including from amongst themselves”.