SANGO-OTA — Nine persons perished in a multiple auto crash that occurred in the early hours of yesterday at Sango-Ota, Old Toll Gate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Several others sustained varying degree of injuries.

Akure — DETECTIVES in Ondo State have arrested a quack nurse over the death of a mother of twins after delivery at Ile-Oluji area of the state.

The governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday said his administration will leave no stone unturned in giving Osun a legacy of an enhanced environment of learning obtainable in any advanced country of the world.

As part of efforts to enhance business transactions in the country, the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) in conjunction with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) organized a day workshop in Lagos to sensitize lawyers on another online registration of companies and business names.

Sympathisers were truly moved to tears and pity as victims of child abuse-cum-labour recalled their ordeals in the hands of their various ‘bosses from hell’. More shocking revelations were made when Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, PRAWA and Stephanie Peace Building and Development Foundation, SPADEV recently took human trafficking sensitisation to the border towns of Ogun State.

FORUM of Senior Special Assistants to Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has described as shameful, the protest in red by some Benin women on Tuesday in support of Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin Kingdom.

RIVERS State Government and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on the one hand, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, on the other, have been engaged in war of words over allegations that the government was set to approach banks for a fresh N10 billion loan.

Prince Abubakar Audu is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC and served as governor twice between 1992 and 1993 and again between 1993 and 2003. Audu declared recently that he has intellectual and physical capacity to restore what he described as the lost glory of the state following what he claims as the destruction of the legacy projects he left behind 12 years ago.

Already, a committee has been set up to that effect. I am waiting for the report of the committee. Once I get it, I will take off from there. In the main time, I am also in talk with JUSUN to see how we can address some of their issues. For the judiciary, we are already renovating the courts. Some of the courts that were not even good for sitting, if you go to Jos now, in the first 100 days, we have renovated them.

STARTING a business in Nigeria has become more cumbersome over the last one year, according to “Doing Business”, an annual report by the World Bank Group measuring the regulations that enhance business activity in 189 economies and those that constrain it.