The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment and violence against women despite backing from Russia, China, India, several Muslim countries and the Vatican.

Fire has gutted about 156 shops at the timber and furniture section of Nkwo Ngwa market in Aba South Local Government Area of Abia, leaving many families in grief for their losses.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Adewale Ajayi and the Aare Onakakanfo, Iba Gani Adams led the cream of the Nigerian society on Friday at the foundation laying ceremony of the Tribune House located along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway in Isheri, Ogun State.

On the occasion of former Gov. Peter Ayodele Fayose’s 58th birthday today, ex-Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has praised the ex-governor for his courage, intelligence, dogged spirit, and resolutness in pointing out the errors of the All Progressives Congress-led federal government over the last three years.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will on November 19, 2018 press charges against a disgraced former lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Richard Akindele, at the Federal High Court, Osogbo, who reportedly demanded sex from one his post graduate students, Monica Osagie, for enhanced mark.