The quiet community of Koko, in Warri North Local Government Council of Delta State, was thrown into a frenzy last weekend when the 89 year old grandson of the great Nanna of Koko, Chief Victor Esimajemite Nanna, was installed the Olare-aja of Koko (Akatagbeni). The title is normally bestowed on the oldest man in the community.

Barely two weeks to the presidential election in the country, the Ondo State coordinator of Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, Rt. Hon. Taofik Abdussalam, in this interview, speaks on the chances of the president in the south-west and the north-west regions. The coordinator’s who is a former speaker of Ondo House of Assembly, also disagrees that the 12 year-rule of the PDP in the country is a collossal waste.

Ireland, West African Business & Economic Council, (IWABEC), a premier ethical development and pro-trade organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, last week, in Abuja, at the 1st ASO Savings & Loans Homes Exhibition, came to town to promote bi-directional investment in property assets by Nigerians and her Diaspora in Ireland and United Kingdom.

Time does not really matter at Mile 12 market, easily one of the most cosmopolitan and biggest markets in Lagos.Whether it is 2 a.m, 4 p.m or 11 p.m ,it is business as always.

For its sheer size, complexity and historical significance, the Benin Moat should be attracting the kind of global attention, if not more, attracted today by the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt.

Palpable fear now rules Uyo metropolis of Akwa Ibom State, after the political violence that erupted Tuesday, claiming no fewer than 50 lives. Consequently, there was virtually no work in all the offices in the Idongesit Nkanga State Secretariat of Akwa Ibom State as workers stayed away from work for fear of falling victim to a resurgence of violence

Lagos State Government, yesterday, said the fallout of the recent strike by the National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, was the major cause of the current heavy traffic, being experienced along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, in addition to the poor state of the road at the axis.

THE past two days (Monday and Tuesday) have been literal hell for motorists, commuters and other road users plying the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, no thanks to the gridlock which has become prevalent on the usually traffic-busy highway.

Just like last year when hardly a month passed without reports of killings or violence in different parts of Plateau State, 2011 is unfortunately portending to be another year of trouble

Ahead of the April general elections, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps(NSCDC) says it has distributed security gadgets such as Close Circuit Television(CCTV)bomb detector and disaster management equipment to all its formations across the country, for effective monitoring of elections.

The EnugwuUkwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State has elected a new traditional ruler. He is HRH Igwe Ralph O. Ekpeh, a Director of Fag Africana Publishers, Onitsha and an industrialist based in the community

Imagine how it would feel to eat, sleep, do daily chore, work or study on a dump site. This is exactly how thousands of residents of Dustbin Estate have been living for years now.

The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) of the Federal Government is fast donning a new toga: National Poverty Elongation Programme, in the face of the excruciating hardship supposed beneficiaries go through in obtaining the facilities especially the tricycles popularly called Keke NAPEP or Keke Marwa.

It came as a shock to every one, particularly indigenes of the great Benin Kingdom. That a son of the soil would have the audacity to violate the sanctity of the royal family. It happened weekend at Uwa, Benin City, when the son of the revered Benin monarch and the Caretaker Chairman of Oredo Local Government Council of Edo state, Prince Ekpen Erediauwa

Since the news of her death was broken some days ago, her residence at No 15 Abraham Adesanya road in Apapa had become a Mecca of a sort