After the success recordedwith her comedy film “Jenifa”, Funke Akindele is set to rule the screen again with the premiering of her long awaited film entitled “ Ómo Ghetto.”

After her sad experience with her ex-footballer lover, pretty actress, Stephanie Okereke can smile again. She got engaged last weekend to her man, Linus Idahosa of Delyork International who she’s been dating since last year.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin has sacked the Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni. In its ruling granted Friday, the Court asked Mr Kayode Fayemi, his opponent and Action Congress governorship candidate in the 2007 election, to take over as the legitimate governor and winner of the election.

NIGERIAN accused of trying to blow up a US-bound airliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear, last December 25, yesterday, said he wanted to represent himself in court.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared that the annual expenditure of over $13 billion (N1.989 trillion) on purchase of diesel to run generators by Nigerians was unacceptable

EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, explained why that state has gone to the Capital Market to access a N30billion bond, saying that it would be cheaper to borrow from the Capital Market with an interest of about 11 percent as against 18 or 19 percent offered by commercial banks

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance yesterday announced that the executive had spent over N3 trillion in the last five years without the approval of the National Assembly

After months of face-off with the executive arm, Lagos State House of Assemby, yesterday, passed a Supplemetary Budget of N36 billion instead of the N46 reque-sted by Governor Babatunde Fashola. The bill sailed through following the intervention of immediate past Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

THE most critical problem facing Nigeria today is best described as a scarcity of good leaders. This is the reason why the country has suffered from bad leadership virtually ever since the colonialists left.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, appealled to the European Union, EU, pay more attention to the preparations for the 2011 general elections and the activities of security agencies, to ensure a free and fair polls in the country.

I KEPT vigil like millions of humanity. We were breathless; will things go according to plan? It was Wednesday October 13, 2010 and Day 69 of 33 Chilean miners being trapped over 700 metres below the earth’s surface. It had been the longest case of people trapped in a mining accident being rescued.

IN its determination to stop corrupt politicians from participating in the 2011 general elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, identified 54 corrupt aspirants on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.

FOLLOWING the release of electoral guidelines for primary elections by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after its 53rd National Executive Committee, NEC meeting held on Wednesday, 15th September, 2010 at the National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, political tempo was immediately charged as the place literarily became a Mecca of sort.

NOBODY expected the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Tambari Yabo Mohammed would have stopped a political rally without reasons, good reasons.

HAPPILY, Nigerians at home and abroad did celebrate the 50 years of political independence from Britain without any vestige of bitterness against our colonial masters.