Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the UN bombing in Abuja. A caller told the BBC on phone that it carried out the attack.

Former BCC Lions of Gboko star and Super Eagles player, Barnabas Imenger has charged Samson Siasia to pick players that will play their hearts out against Madagascar in Antananarivo next Saturday.

From Sir, later Lord Luggard’sroguish amalgamation of the lands and peoples today known as Nigeria and Nigerians, to the date this humble rejoinder hits the airwaves (some 97 years), Nigerians have clamoured to exercise their fundamental right to give themselves a Constitution. The extent of the clamour is evidenced by Suits in the Federal High Court Abuja and Lagos: Suit Nos. FHC/ABJ/CS/367/07 and No. FHC/L/CS/558/09, in which Chief Anthony Enahoro, Wole Soyinka, Odumegwu Ojukwu, C.C. Onoh, Chief Bankole Oki, SAN, Ralph Uwazuruike, Asari Dokubo, Yerima Shettima, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Fred Agbeyegbe, asked for relief that the 1999 Constitution be jettisoned, on the ground that “The 1999 Constitution is a forgery”. Since then, there have been contestations as to whether or not the National Assembly can amend the 1999 Constitution or make a new one.

Alhaji Jibrin Isa, an investment banker of repute is gunning for the governorship seat in Kogi state. With Kogi State celebrating 20 years of its creation today, he speaks on the journey so far and what he expects the state to look like in the next 20 years.

But for the inbuilt fire extinguisher mechanism that was put in place at the UN House in Abuja, the entire 5 -storey building would have gone up in flames and caved in following the impact of the bomb blast carried out by a suicide bomber in an explosive -laden Honda car yesterday.