Shareholders of Oando Plc have a lot to cheer as their company’s share rose by 131 percent, its highest level in 18 months.

Lagos—Five teenagers from two schools on Lagos Island, Falomo Senior High School and Ireti Grammar School, who allegedly assaulted their fellow classmates (names withheld) sexually and tore their school skirts were, yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos.

THE crisis rocking the leadership of Ibeku community has deepened with a faction of the Ibeku Egwu Asaa Development Association rejecting the peace settlement held last week by another faction, saying that no peace settlement took place.

FORMER majority leader of the state House of Assembly, Chief Osita Igbe, has said that only rotation of the governorship position among the three senatorial zones would ensure peace and harmony in the state.

A Department in the Presidency, the President’s Schools Debate Nigeria, PSDN, yesterday, honoured Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and some brilliant secondary school students from the state, who performed exceptionally in an international debate competition in Singapore.

Senator Gershom Bassey represents Cross River Southern Senatorial District. He is one of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. In this interview he condemns the recent attacks of herdsmen on his constituents and said that designating permanent grazing routes will not solve the problem. He also disclosed some of the efforts to reduce crisis in his constituency. Excerpts:

NIGERIANS have been urged to develop the true spirit of love and cultivate the culture of praying for their country and the leaders. The plea was made at a special prayer session tagged, “Muslims Pray for the Nation,” organised by The Muslim Congress (TMC), Lagos State chapter.

THE 2017 edition of the annual luncheon/public lecture of the Lagos chapter of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife) Muslim Graduates’ Association (UNIFEMGA) held on April 30 in Lagos with the theme: ‘Strategic Imperatives and Opportunities for Investments and Wealth Creation by Nigerian Muslim Professionals in Lagos.’

Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Sunday Atawodi, has said one person dies of cancer in Nigeria every seven minutes.

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the Federal Government had waded into the lingering dispute between management of ExxonMobil and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, to avert a total shut down of the production.

DELTA State chapter of United Labour Congress, ULC, yesterday, urged the state government to step up efforts at attracting foreign and local investors in addition to the resuscitation of ailing industries in the state to boost employment and development.

Flying Doctors Nigeria, one of the leading air ambulance companies in Africa, provides unique Medevac Cover Plan which saves evacuation costs in the event of evacuation and the patient has cash liquidity deficit.

Young people in Nigeria have been charged to participate actively in politics at all levels in order to reinvigorate the system of governance with innovative ideas in line with current global trends.

The Gambia’s new national carrier, Fly Mid Africa, will commence flight services from Banjul, Lagos, Nigeria, and has appointed Peacock Aviation Services, as its General Sales Agent in Nigeria.Consequently, Peacock has commenced ticket sales in its international head office in Ikeja, Lagos.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, yesterday announced a decline in the outbreak of meningitis in the most affected states, even as the death toll has reached a total of 1,069 from 13,420 suspected cases as at May 9, 2017.