ABOUT seven years ago, my husband took a second wife and that nearly tore the family to shreds. I felt betrayed and moved out of the home to my own flat.

Acting  Head of the   United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in Cross River, Dr. Yakubu Aliu, has said that one  of every four Nigerian women between the ages of 15 and 49 have undergone   Female Genital Mutilation, FGM.

Reasons have emerged for the increasing opposition by vested stakeholders to the drive by the new national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to institute the direct primary method of selecting party candidates for elections.

PUBLIC officers expecting to start enjoying enhanced minimum wage soon may have to wait longer as the federal government committee on the issue and the state governors were yet to arrive at acceptable figures.

There are indications that Nigeria’s oil has been over-supplied as 30 unsold cargoes await buyers in the international market.

The author of “Crazy Rich Asians”, which has been adapted into a hit Hollywood movie, is wanted in his native Singapore for allegedly dodging mandatory national service, authorities said Wednesday.

Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, founder of Progressive Alliance Movement, PAM, and son of Nigeria’s first Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, has commended the Federal government for its timely intervention in averting the proposed FIFA’s ban, noting that the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is competent.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has urged the new President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Paul Usoro, SAN, to ensure that lawyers continue to support efforts geared towards speedy administration of criminal justice system in the country.

IT is a notorious fact that there is endemic corruption and crime in Nigeria. In foreign countries, Nigerians are regarded as corrupt people and treated as pariahs on the ground that they are Nigerians who hail from the most corrupt country in the world.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, last week destroyed  a variety of counterfeit, fake, expired and unwholesome products including controlled drugs such as codeine containing cough syrup and tramadol, at the  Bajoga Road Dump Site in Gombe, Gombe State.

Samsung Electronics recently boosted the mid-range smartphone market with the launch of Samsung Galaxy J series, J6 and J4. Since that launch, the company seems to have made a name for itself  as competition  heightens in the entry level segment of the market.

In the hit Hollywood movie “Crazy Rich Asians”, Singapore’s super-rich drive Ferraris and Lamborghinis, travel on private jets, and party on a container ship transformed into a nightclub at sea.

ACCESS to family planning commodities and services in Kaduna State has improved from 18.5 percent according to the 2013 National Demographic Health Survey, NDHS, to 26 percent presently (2016-17 MICS).

He is speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, and also the chairman of the Conference of Speakers, the body of speakers of all state legislative houses in the country.

The Coordinator of the South West, Nigeria Customs Service, Assistant Comptroller General Aminu Dahiru, last week commissioned a One-Stop-Shop centre for the resolution of disputes arising from cargo clearance at the Tin Can Island command of the Service.