GLOBAL COMMUNITY REPORTERS

Two heads are better than one — so goes the popular saying. But there are times when two heads are a big problem, such as with a new born baby delivered on Tuesday at a hospital in Ogudu on the outskirts of Lagos.

Prof. Francis Otunta, the Vice Chancellor (VC), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, in Abia, has confirmed the discovery of a new drug for the treatment and cure of HIV/AIDS. 

The body of Kim Jong-nam, half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has arrived in Pyongyang, Chinese officials say.

Sixteen students were injured yesterday when fire swept through the Bakassi Female Hostel at the Yaba Collage of Technology (YABATECH).  Twenty rooms and six kitchens were razed; three famale student fell into coma.

The recent death of college student Zhou Yang, following a long battle with cancer, was a tragedy. But the 21-year-old from Yibin, Sichuan Province achieved so much in her short life, and continues to help others even after her passing.

A notorious kidnap kingpin, popularly called King Solomon, alleged to have been responsible for the abduction of several residents of Festac Town in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos and environs, has been arrested by police in Lagos.

A 28-year-old nursing mother, Tina Promise, who allegedly cut her lover’s girlfriend in the breast with a razor blade was, yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos. 

Bishop Ajayi Crowther Our owner was bound with his sailors; except the cook, who was preparing our breakfast. Hunger rendered us bold; and not being threatened at first attempts to get some fruits from the stern, we in a short time took the liberty of ranging about the vessel, in search of plunder of every kind.

THERE was seeming tension and uncertainty in the Abakaliki Federal Prisons, Friday afternoon following reports of protests by the inmates who among other called for the immediate removal of the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons (names withheld) in the State.

By Job Osazuwa Residents and business owners in Kirikiri, Mazamaza, Mike Two and other communities in that part of Lagos State are in excruciating pain and agony. In the past few days, accessing their homes and businesses have been a difficult thing for them. They are begging the Federal and Lagos State governments as well as the security agencies in the state to rescue them from the hands of operators of trailer-trucks, tankers and other articulated vehicles who have completely taken over the major and minor roads in the axis. The immediate cause of the people’s current travails is the decision by the Federal and Lagos State governments to stop barge operations along the Marina coastline. It was alleged that such operations have desecrated the beauty and serenity of Marina coastline. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who defied the early morning downpour on Tuesday to inspect the activities around the Marina coastline...