THE late Second Republic Vice- President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, who died last year in a London hospital, was last week buried in his home town, Oko in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State amidst eulogies poured by Nigerian leaders and politicians.

THE leadership of Maritime Workers Union (MWUN), yesterday suspended the union’s planned nationwide strike after a with representatives of the Federal Government in Abuja, agreeing that among others, the Special Committee on road decongestion to remove Trucks/Trailers on the roads would  be brought back and the personnel undertaking it be strengthened.

A Badagry magistrate’s court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a 29-year-old man, Keyinde Solade, to 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and stealing a motorbike, despite his arrest by the Police over theft of another motorbike.

The problem is that among these Fulani herdsmen, we have one group that is organised and the other group is not organised; this particular group that is not organised go into our farms with arms and destroy them

A human rights lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare that 373 indigenous peoples within Nigeria have rights to self-determination.