A 37-year-old, Francis Okezie, who allegedly raped and impregnated a teenage girl, yesterday, appeared before an Ikeja chief magistrate’s court.

A non governmental organisation, Joy in Africa Foundation, has advised against stigmatisation of children with disability, calling on government and well meaning individuals to assist them in fulfilling their destiny.

TO be Nigerian is to live with football.Here, you do not have to be a fan of football to know football; you just have to be here. With this in mind, it is surprising how relatively little the attention directed at Nigerian football is. What is less surprising is the misguided general disregard for Nigerian women’s football.

THE relevance of Sociology, its impact in nation-building and its relatively low appreciation formed the focus of a round table and presentation of awards to distinguished alumni at the 50th anniversary of Sociology department, University of Lagos, UNILAG, tagged: Sociology: question of relevance and visibility, held at Afe Babalola Hall, UNILAG.

The curious question is why do Nigerians love first class when they can save money on buying business or economy class tickets?

The Senate has said the Federal Government cannot disburse the N4billion currently needed by the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, as the institution is state-owned.

THE Nigerian economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil, while accounts for 81 percent of government revenue and more than 97 percent of export earnings. Myopic policies pursued by successive military regimes in the final decades of the last century devastated the traditional agrarian economy and crippled growth in the non-oil sectors.

BIOMETRIC data image capturing recently conducted by Cross River State Government has uncovered 1,735 fake pensioners and 800 ghost workers and thereby saved the state N1.3 billion monthly.

THERE are indications that the Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, in the country would be key beneficiaries of the recent executive orders rolled out by the Presidency for ease of doing business in Nigeria.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in collaboration with Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) have concluded plans to introduce financial education curricula into basic and senior secondary schools in the country from the next academic session (2017/2018).

Jalingo—Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State said, yesterday, that normalcy had returned to the troubled Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna Local Government Area of the state.

The Beauty Souk is a classic way of giving access to market to SMEs…The beauty industry is growing as you can see so many people in the space

Three female sales representatives and an accountant, yesterday, appeared in a Yaba chief magistrate’s court, Lagos, charged with defrauding their employer of N85 million.

The time has come to unbundle the Fashola Sector so that each of those three Ministries can stand on its own. And indeed, the Federal Executive Council should immediately be rearranged for maximum efficiency and productivity

FIFTEEN suspects have been arrested by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, after intercepting 1,442 cartons of medications smuggled into the country without registration number from the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC.