The Osun government has declared June 12 as public holiday to mark the annulled presidential election presumably won by the late business mogul, Chief Moshood Abiola.

Rt. Rev. Peter Awelewa Adebiyi was born on the April 27, 1943 at Osi-Ekiti precisely 69 years ago , to a fairly educated father, Chief Samuel Ogunmola and Madam Alice Fatinuwe Adebiyi both of blessed memory.

A suicide blast at the police headquarters in restive city of Maiduguri Friday killed at least two policemen and wounded six other people, authorities and witnesses said

The much anticipated 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012 will this evening by 5 o’clock kick off with Poland and Greece slugging it out in the opening match.

THIS piece was initially entitled: “Olaitan Oyerinde: A Machiavelli Unravels in Edo”; but I had to change it to “Olaitan Oyerinde: Rest not in peace” for an understandable reason: To flag down attention of readers to the narrative, which is both a tribute, in the plain literary logic, to a man who lived for the labour struggle but was, unfortunately, cut down by unknown gun men in the arena of conflict that has been given a political coloration, and a genre of message to a spirit being to fight for himself in the folkloric sense.