In many parts of the country, there is increasing patronage for water transport as an escape option in traffic gridlock-prone areas. This is the case in Lagos where many residents now find solace in this means of transportation to make up for the constant loss of man hours often associated with road transportation.

Last Sunday, scores of youth from Ifira village, Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, who had made a habit of taking an illegally carved short-cut that passes through the perimeter fence of the Kaduna International Airport, Kaduna, were livid when they discovered that one of the “routes” had been blocked by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

WHEN Dupe Olowoyo wedded her heartrob Sunday Olowoyo in 1996, her joy of a blissful married life was boundless. Even though babies did not come immediately after the marriage, she did not entertain any fear or misgivings. And when she had a baby boy two years after

Hope has come the way of Jude Ndubuisi Azubuike, a young lad who until his visual impairment, had, like many other youths, a dream of going to school and becoming a big time lawyer.

Tomorrow is the D-day. Nigeria’s 2011 elections will kick off with the National Assembly contestants slugging it out in different states of the federation. So far, the level of violence recorded in some states has been frightening if not disturbing.

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Plc joined millions of people all over the world to observe the Earth Hour for the second consecutive year.

Barely 72 hours to the April polls, 32 groups of repentant militants drawn from the various coastal communities in Bayelsa State, yesterday, surrendered 428 different guns to the police authorities.
Also submitted were 32 Improvised Explosion Devices, IED, and fetish paraphernalia.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Sunday performed the concrete pouring ceremony to formally flag off the construction a new on-ramp designed to carry traffic travelling from Victoria Island to Ikoyi

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.