CALABAR—A 22-year-old lady, Christabel Itodo, became the first confirmed case of Lassa Fever casualty recorded in Cross River State, having died from the disease on Monday.

A man and a woman each serving time for killing their first spouses have married in a prison in western Nepal — but won’t be able to consummate the marriage until the groom is released in 14 years.

The anthropocentric calculus posits that whether by centripetal or centrifugal diversions, man has become the monumental leverage on which the social-political, economic and cultural pendulum swings. Man has therefore created laws, principles, social mores, ethics, ceremonial commemorations and religious practices to enhance and concretise the basis of the ‘social contract’ of which ‘man’ are the cardinal focus, the Christmas day being one of them.

Chimdi Maduagwu’s novel, Women Without Hearts (UNILAG Press; Lagos) steps into the loop and offers interesting insights to the complex relationship that exists between men and women in the modern world. The novel presents an intriguing lifestyle of some young women on a journey to success in their chosen careers. The desperate bid to climb the social ladder through despicable means and the exploitation of the weaknesses of powerful men in order to achieve their desired goals is at the heart of this captivating narrative.

The management of G.U.O. Transport Services Ltd, has reacted to the accident involving one of its luxury buses recently at Owode-Elede in Lagos, saying it was unfortunate and saddening.

A businessman and graduate of Mechanical Engineering from a university in the South-West region of the country, Suleiman Olalekan, is to die by hanging for killing his 22-year-old wife, Chika Egbo, by bathing her with acid.

Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) has scheduled to crown Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Grand Patron of FESTAC ’77 on March 3, 2017, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. This was recently disclosed to Vanguard’s Arts & Reviews by the Corporate Affairs Department CBAAC, D-G’s Office, at Broad Street, Lagos.

M Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, is today being inaugurated as the sixth civilian governor of Ondo State with huge expectations.
Expectations of economic revival are stirred by the fact that the new governor is a technocrat who will play less of politics with the fate of the people he will be leading. The day will mark the beginning of a new political journey in the state as the former opposition All Progressive Congress APC takes over the reins of power from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by a onetime invisible political strategist, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

It was jubilation, Tuesday, at Sabo area of Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, when a woman gave birth to baby girl inside a commercial bus.

The Federal Government has, yesterday, said infrastructure development would boost the country’s economic growth, create wealth and jobs for the populace