The protest by a section of Southern Kaduna indigenes against the peace pact signed by the National President of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Dr. Ephraim Goje, and Fulani herdsmen in April, seems justified.

Saturday June 7, 2014, will remain the happiest day in the life of Mercy James. Reason? That was the day she miraculously gave birth to a baby girl after 14 years of being pregnant.

Just like many before him, Olalekan Lawal came to Lagos to eke out a living and take care of his family. Happily fortune smiled on the 26-year-old as he soon found himself working with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, Lagos Zonal office.

POLICE have beefed up security around government facilities and some major gateways into Port Harcourt. This may be to fortify the capital city of oil-rich Rivers State against any attack by insurgents.

It was a moment forfrank talk in Rivers State when youths gathered under the aegis of Integrated Youths Economic Empowerment Programme, IYEEP, to discuss the challenges of unemployment, cultism and other related vices facing youths in the country. They also condemned the killing of youths, women and children by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in some states in the North.

STAKEHOLDERS in the hospitality industry particularly hotel proprietors, are kicking against government’s move to ban the possession or consumption of alcoholic liquors, beer or wine around public swimming pools in the state. Also to be prohibited is igniting open flames.

It has been over three years of unending frustration for motorists and commuters at the Mile 2 axis of the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa expressway, since the road failed.

The mystery behind the cure of a cocoa/palm kernel merchant, Alhaji Andrew Audu, of decades of stroke paralysis is still amazing to his neighbours.

It is not everyday that you find somebody whose life is full of mysteries. So when you meet one, you are bound to appreciate what he or she has gone through. So it is with Madam Emumukade Omopenu Adedewe Pitan, 89, who claimed to have spent three years, three months in her mother’s womb; crept, as a baby, into a fire; and married according to prediction.

The residents of Ifesowapo Community Development Area in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State are in fear of demolition of their houses.