The Ag. Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF, a foremost conservation foundation in Nigeria, Joseph Onoja, has noted that global celebration of forests provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of all types of woodlands and tree, and celebrate the ways in which they sustain and protect the earth.

A young man, 25 years old, identified as Chidiebere Duru, an indigene of Umuafai Village, Dikenafai, Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State was on Friday, March 23rd, 2018 sentenced to three years imprisonment by Hon. Justice Allagoa at the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Owerri Judicial Division, for unlawfully tampering with a 200KVA transformer, property of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) located at Umuejim Nnenato, Dikenafai, Ideato South Local Government Area, Imo State. The action is contrary to the provisions of Section 1 (9) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap M17, L.F.N. 2004.

Total Nigeria Plc, has presented starter pack to its graduating students of the 2016/2017 Skills Acquisition Programme, SAP, to start up their businesses across the nation.

Kogi West Liberation Movement has agreed to the zoning of Western Senatorial seat to Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State.

FOR the past few weeks, the newspapers have been full of stories about Russia killing an English Russian spy with a radioactive nerve agent poison. All of the West is getting hot under the collar claiming that the hit was ordered by Putin himself.

THE Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, has constituted a national advisory council to chart a new course for the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The council which was constituted over the weekend in Abuja has as chairman, Chief Frank Igwebuike, a veteran politician.

The management of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron, Cross River State, has revealed some of its staff were arrested over sharp practices and document peddling.

THE wife of Niger State Governor, Dr. Amina Bello, has raised alarm over rising cases of Vesico Vaginal Fistula, VVF, in the state, blaming ignorance among women for the surge.

Nigeria Football Federation officials have been in talks with Manchester United up and coming midfielder, Tosin Kehinde who has declared his intentions to play for Nigeria.

Representatives of women across the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State, yesterday at a rally in Ikeja, endorsed Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for a second term in office.

A carpenter, Nnana Ononaku, was on Monday brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly strangling his wife to death and throwing her body into the lagoon.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the UN of his commitment to a credible, free and fair elections in 2019.

THE people of Ayuele Kingdom Agbede, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, have been thrown into mourning  following the death of their Oba, Alhaji Momoh Momodu.

THE Congress of Northern Nigeria Christians, CNNC, Monday called on President Muhammad Buhari to do all within his powers to rescue Miss Leah Sharibu, the only Christian girl yet-to- be released by Boko Haram insurgents after the Dapchi school girls’ abduction.

The Federal Government has signed treaty obligations within the West African sub-region and beyond to regulate the amount of load any goods vehicle can put on an axle and by extension, on the road in order to do business within ECOWAS and beyond,