Saturday, April 7, 2012 will remain a remarkable day in the lives of indigenes of South Ibie, Etsako –West Local Government Area of Edo State. On that day the Aidonogie’s Royal Palace, Iyakpi, South-Ibie council was filled to capacity by a large crowd of indigenes as well as friends, relations, well wishers, who came from far and wide to celebrate the maiden edition of South Ibie Day Celebration. The day also provided them an opportunity to categorically demand from the state government a staff of office to the newly appointed Aidonogie which will translate to a substantive king.

IT was a scene of confusion in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital penultimate week when officers and men of the Nigeria Police, Ebonyi State Police Command and students of Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki clashed at the gate of the College of Health Sciences, CHS, Presco campus during what initially began as a peaceful protest by the students of the institution.

Recently, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, alerted Nigerians on the proliferation of fake St Louis sugar in the markets. The sugar which was said to have been smuggled from Cotonou had been consumed by a number of unsuspecting Nigerians without the slightest knowledge of the hazard it represents.

A member of the National Youth Service Corps, Oluwaseyi Oluwalade, serving in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, has donated 2,000 copies of customized Big Exercise books to 10 public primary schools in Akoko South/West Local Government Area of the state.

But for providence, members and management of the Methodist Church Nigeria, located at Owolowo street, Ikorodu, Lagos would have been thrown into mourning following an attempt by a young man to plant an explosive device there after scaling the fence of the church compound.