Kazeem Afegbua, spokes person for General Babangida, explains in this interview, why Nigerians have in IBB a leader who can fill the void in the polity with his vast experience. He also insists that beyond the noise of the market place, the electorate would determine the 2011 presidential elections.

Eyo is unarguably the biggest cultural festival in Lagos . To say that Lagosians relish the annual festival is to say the obvious. But this week, bigger cultural festival is currently holding in Lagos . The festival is taking on international dimension and so the focus of cultural minded people around the world which presently be shifted to Lagos as it hosts the Black Heritage Festival.

Bayelsa State government yesterday vowed to prosecute erring private and commercial motorcyclists who operate beyond 7pm and before5.30am. Consequently, it has ordered the police command to arrest and prosecute violators of the directive.

CHAIRMAN of Burutu LGA in Delta State, Frank Zuokumor, has presented a N1.522b budget estimates for the 2010 fiscal year to the council’s legislature.

A Lagos based engineer, Olakunle Olajide recently rejected pleas to live with his estranged wife, Moyosore Olajide, who is a banker.

An end, yesterday, came to a six year- legal tussle between the Orangun of Ila-Orangun, Oba Wahab Oyedotun Bibire and Prince Adekunle Ogunmuyiwa who is challenging the selection and appointment of the monarch, as an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo declared the appointment of Oba Bibire as the Orangun of Ila_Orangun null and void.

A 43-year- old man, Benjamin Yinusa has appeared before Ojo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an under aged girl. Yinusa got himself into trouble when he lured the 16-year-old girl to unlawful sex recently on February 13,2010 at about 10 pm. He was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum by the court presided by Mr. P.A. Adekomoya .

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is still the cause. That was the exact word he used in his congratulatory message to the man many of us now delight to honour with title of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. One Prime Ministerial and two Presidential elections had come and gone, in all of which Chief Awolowo contested and lost.

A Jos-based cleric, Prophet Isa El-Buba has spoken against the clamour for the president to come from a particular part of the country insisting that Nigerians should now be more concerned about the ability of the president to provide good leadership irrespective of where he comes from.

Former Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE), Dr Chris Anyanwu, has denied media report which linked his sack by the Federal Government to his refusal to carry out directive from the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on the sale of BPE.