In Pictures:Swaziland's King Mswati III celebrations marking his 40th birthday & independence.

Twice in one week, the Movement for Emancipation the Niger Delta,MEND, has disclaimed groups threatening mayhem in the region, unless certain demands are met.

The families of the dead victims of the Beechcraft 1900D light aircraft that crashed on 15 March, this year, with three crew members on board, have been kept in the dark and abandoned by both Wings Aviation Services Limited, operators of the aircraft, and the Federal Government.

The Lagos state government has unveiled a blueprint to curb the high rate of collapsed buildings in the state.

A private school teacher in the Jehovah Witness sect, has allegedly raped his landlady?s 7-year-old daughter and a teenage house maid.

The Action Congress (AC), Lagos State, has adopted the open ballot system, popularly known as Option A4, for the primary election of its aspirants for the forthcoming local government elections in the state.

Embattled former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, has been granted bail by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

A 25-year-old trader, Stanley Mbablis, who resides at 72, Oshodi Road, Afariogun, Oshodi, Lagos, has been arrested by the police, after robbing a branch of a first generation bank at Ladipo, Mushin.

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the attack on an old generation bank at Sandgrouse, Lagos Island, recently, Johnson Omoniyi Bamidele, has narrated how the gang invaded the bank.

More than two weeks after he left the country for Saudi Arabia for the treatment of kidney related disease, President Umaru musa Yar'adua, at last, returned to Nigeria early this morning, along with his wife, Hajiya Turai Yar'adua.