A gigantic billboard bearing a smiling woman smartly dressed in a gown, cuddling her son who was also grinning from ear-to-ear stood firmly on top of the ruins of the three high rise apartment and store which had just collapsed and trapped unknown number of people that Thursday afternoon.

The advertisement was an annoying contradiction to the desperate reality beneath it – a grim day light tragic drama that had attracted thousands of persons, including the Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero to No. 012 Hadieja Street, by the Kaduna Central Market last week.

The Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not call off its strike until the Federal Government meets the union’s demands, according to the Zonal Coordinator, Dr Adesola Nassir.

Thousands of secondary school students in Lagos State trooped out last weekend to various centres across the state to participate in the first stage of the PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge, PZCCC.

Five members of a deadly armed robbery gang that killed nine persons last Sunday at Ajah and Ebute-Metta areas of the State, were at the early hours of last Sunday, gunned down during an exchange of gunfire with the police at Eko Bridge, Lagos Island. The robbers, who also killed two policemen during their onslaught, met their waterloo when operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, confronted them after they attacked Ebute-Ero and Ajao Estates respectively, recovering three automatic pump action guns, five pistols, ammunitions and assorted charms.

These are not the best of times for Catholic priests in Imo State, especially those in the Archdiocese of Owerri.

These are not the best of times for Catholic priests in Imo State, especially those in the Archdiocese of Owerri. Investigations have since revealed that dare-devil armed hoodlums have carefully descended on Catholic rectories and mercilessly beat up the hapless and helpless priests. Most of the physically assaulted and wounded priests have been battling for survival in varying hospitals.

LAGOS — ACADEMIC activities will today resume in all the Federal and State Polytechnics nationwide following the suspension of the 81-day industrial action by the lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP.

The combined operatives of the Anti kidnapping squad and special Anti Robbery Squad of the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force have nabbed a notorious armed robbery/ kidnap suspect who gave his name as one Stanley Smith Anukwu alias Ejima of Ndiagu Akpugo in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state.

Shock and disbelief could best describe the expression on the face of Kingsley Ifeanyi, on discovering that his kidnap, two months ago, was masterminded by his bosom friend, Jimoh Olalere.

Residents of Tolu Community, in Ajegunle, Ajeromi -Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State have lamented the location of a septic discharge unit at Tolu Jetty and the location of an illegal dump site in their neighborhood, calling for urgent intervention to avert an epidemic.