THE Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has opened talks with National Teachers Institute, NTI, with a view to establishing a distance learning centre in the university. A three-man delegation team led by the ABU Dean of Postgraduate School and the Acting Director of the university’s Distance Learning Centre, Prof Adebayo Joshua, met with the management of the NTI in Kaduna on Monday, to discuss the modalities for the centre.

An Osogbo Magistrate’s court in Osun has dissolved a 17-year-old marriage over complaint by the husband that his wife beats him up mercilessly for going to church. The petitioner, Mr. Asimuyu Oladosu, told the court that his wife, Kehinde, beats him whenever he goes to church or vigil and urged the court to dissolve the marriage.

The spate of kidnapping in Nigeria and the involvement of youths in the criminal act have become a source of grave concern. More worrisome is the fact that abduction is fast becoming more than a trend; it is now an industry thriving on funds received from the families of victims.

A housewife, Mrs Iyabo Odewunmi, has told an Osogbo Customary Court in Osun State to dissolve her 10-year-old marriage to her husband, Ojo, over his habit of using her menstrual pads for ritual purposes.

“Gone are the days when teachers believed that their reward is in heaven. They want their reward here and now or they take it by force,” commented Bassey this Monday morning as the commuter bus crawled along with other vehicles in the early morning showers along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. “Why should their reward be in heaven when they work on earth? They have been deceived for so long but now, they know better having seen the way politicians spend our money,” replied Abe.

Residents of Ago-Okota, a suburb of Isolo Local Government Area in Lagos State, are yet to unravel the motive behind the demolition of a one- story building located at Number 28, Ago Palace Way, Okota by a gang of hoodlums.

There was pandemonium, weekend, at the Bridge Head area of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State when a female police officer, Inspector Tochukwu Ofoegbu accused a notable businessman (names withheld) of molesting and almost stripping her naked.

The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Maduka Okeke, has urged the general public to always feel free to expose kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminal elements in the area by giving useful information that could lead to their arrests. One way of doing this, he said, is by scribbling their piece of information in a paper and dropping it at the newly opened Archdiocesan information box, for onward transmission to the appropriate government authorities, for prompt action.

HOW will you feel if you suddenly discover that the driver of the bus or vehicle you have boarded is blind? In Lagos, it has been discovered that a large percentage of drivers, both private and public are suffering from different degrees of eye defects that have made them to be partially blind.

DO you know that meats slaughtered in any illegal abattoir may be dangerous to human health? How? They are not tested by any competent Veterinary Doctors to certify their safety consumption level for human.