Eulogies continue to trail legendary Rashidi Yekini even as former Abia state governor Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu Weekend prayed the Federal government to honour him as a star who once refused to play against the Eagles in a 1994 friendly with Portuguese side Vitoria Setubal.

Do we need to point out that as a nation we are covered with shame that it took an external court of justice, of the former colonial masters, to finally put an end to the costly shenanigans of another of your former brother governors, one who held the forces of anti-corruption at bay, led them a merry dance all the way to Dubai until he was plucked out of his imagined sanctuary?

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday conceded defeat to his Socialist rival Francois Hollande and said he had phoned him to wish him luck as the new leader of France.

Soldiers in the northern city of Kano killed four suspected members of Islamist sect in a raid on their hideout on Sunday, an army spokesman said.

Joint Task Force, JTF, raided the hideout of suspected religious extremists in Hotoro quarters of Kano municipal, killing four in the ensuing gunfight. JTF spokesman, Lt. Ikediche Iweha, told Vanguard on phone that several suspected militants were arrested during the operation.