The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway:This is main gateway into Lagos, the nation’s hub of commercial activities. It is arguably the busiest and most traversed trunk road in Sub-Saharan Africa. It serves unquantifiable number of traffic daily such as heavy duty trucks, commuter buses and other vehicles to and from the Lagos metropolis to every other parts of Nigeria.

Renewed violence in the Niger-Delta signals that some repentant militants still have an axe to grind with government.

The annual Ojude- Oba, usually celebrated third day after Eid-el-Kabir, took place on Thursday in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with sons and daughters of the ancient town trooping to the headquarters of Ijebu Division to pay homage to their traditional ruler, the Awujale, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

Mary, the controversial child 15 years ago in Nigeria has been missing for over two months now. Every effort to get her has yielded no result. The controversy over her case is something that Nigerians need to unravel if Nigerians still want Mary, the miracle baby get to her destination in life.

Intrigues have set in as the sacked governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and his main challenger, Chief Great Ogboru, get set for the rerun election in the state ordered by the Court of Appeal.

Alhaji Sabo Mohammed later emerged President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations. He is currently a public relations consultant. The 71-year-old told BASHIR ADEFAKA the story of his life in Kano.

Where do I begin my Indian story?

If, while discussing with a few people in an evening atmosphere, you repeatedly did a dash like an athlete taking off in a 100m race but ended up doing only a metre or two especially to different directions, you could probably be taken for a mad man in Nigeria.

Over the last 12 weeks, strike- the six-letter word that sends cold shivers down the spine of the hapless Nigerian has had cause to rear its head in the health sector. A last-ditch attempt to avert the latest strike had hit the rocks, Regrettably, the issue of strike has almost become a permanent feature in the nation’s health industry but even as government health institutions in Lagos are reeling under the onslaught of a paralysing doctors’ strike, worse may yet come if feelers from the aggrieved doctors are anything to go by. For the umpteenth time, doctors in Lagos public hospitals would down tools for seemingly irreconcilable issues particularly, those connected to wages and conditions of service.

After several weeks of consultations, the committee set up by the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, to choose a consensus candidate from amongst former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, serial National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd) and Kwara State Governor, Bukola Abubakar Saraki, is expected to finally announce its choice this week – barring any last minute disequilibrium. Therefore, this report takes you through the bumpy road to picking that candidate and why the assignment was not a tea party.

FOR members of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria in Ogun State, it is time for a showdown with the Ogun State Government over the latter’s unilateral and arbitrary increase in the fees and levies to be paid by the produce merchants.