Otor-Edo: Delta’s forgotten clay goldmine
Today (Tuesday), with banners rising and PowerPoints flashing on Day 2, the Delta State Economic and Investment Summit peaked in Asaba as host Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, other state actors, and CEOs negotiated Unlocking potentials and a Made in Delta agenda for a global audience.
Traders cry out: As fear of Boko Haram triggers panicky security measures at Lagos Prisons
NOcturnal life at the Prisons Officers Wives Association shops, PROWA, popularly known as Umunede, came to an abrupt end last week as a combined team of armed military men (Army and Navy) and their counterpart from the Prisons, the Prisons Armed Squad, PAS, stormed the place to enforce traders compliance to the 9 pm to 8 am deadline for traders occupying front line shops at the Prisons barracks. But before now businesses, most especially bar and restaurant owners, operate up till 11.30 pm to 12 midnight.
Let’s give new housing policy a chance – Omeife
MR. Chuks Omeife is the President Nigeria Institute of Builders, NIOB. In this interview with VanguardFeatures,VF, he lamented that mortgage institutions in Nigeria, have abandoned their primary mandate of providing finance at reasonable costs.
25 Rules of Engagement: Lagos Driving lesson 101
If you get caught by any chance, do not allow them to enter your car, if they happen to get in do not drive from that spot (veer off traffic & settle promply), and if they don’t agree, pretend that you are calling your uncle who is in the army (believe me it always works), never follow them to any sort of office except you are ready to pay ten times more than what was demanded.
NAPTIP secures 169 convictions against child labour
NATIONAL Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters, NAPTIP, has secured a total of 168 convictions in the past nine years of operations, saying not less than 41 cases were currently pending at the Lagos zone.
Lagos: Still at the mercy of danfo drivers
OF all the problems facing Lagos, the worst might be traffic. Chaotic traffic in Lagos is man-made – a phenomenon as destructive and inevitable as the rains that falls anytime of the year.
Woman to court: What kind of man would strip his wife naked in public?
A 28-year-old woman, Mrs.Rachel Raheem, told an Agege customary court that her husband, Mr. Aliu Raheem, beat her constantly and once stripped her naked in the public.
Edo election day tragedy: ‘My brother ignored death warning and paid dearly for it’
Inspector Isaac Aigbokhaevbo is one of the police officers that died Edo State on July 14, 2012, the day of the governorship election in the state. Three police officers and an ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), including Aigbokhaevbo, lost their lives when a boat conveying them to a voting center at Ologbo, Ikpoba Okhai Local Government Council capsized.
Lack of trust goes deadly: ‘I almost died of ‘Magun’ planted on me by my husband’
A 34-year-old nurse, Mrs. Taiwo Akinode,has dragged her husband, Mr. Toyin Akinode, before an Oshodi customary court for allegedly planting ‘magun’ on her over lack of trust.
Host community gets best two students’ scholarships
In line with the popular proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child, a combination of British, American and Nigerian curriculum school, Mervyn Academy, has commenced plans to award scholarships to best two students from each of the schools within its host community.
My man slept with our daughter – Housewife
A housewife, Mrs. Janet Unwah, told an Orile Agege Customary Court that her husband, Mr. Augustine Unwah abandoned home after he had sex with their first daughter who was in her tender age. The mother of five, who claimed to have caught her husband pants down, informed the court that Augustine was a drunkard and that whenever he was drunk, he would beat her mercilessly at the slightest provocation.
