IN the typical Nigerian fashion, the political scene gets more charged with desperation and desperadoes as the election year approaches and there are all the signs that general elections fever has since gripped the nation.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Thursday, urged President Goodluck to strip governor Adams Oshiomhole of the national honour of the rank of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON he gave to him in 2011.

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has rejected the six year single tenure for presidents and governors, saying that the system does not only encourage corruption, but discourages performance in public office.

An FCT High Court on Thursday fixed May 10 for ruling in an application seeking to quash charges against Farouk Lawan, former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime

A pop star, Innocent Idibia (a.k.a, 2Face), says he will do his best to influence the youth to be resourceful and self-reliant.

Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix, a tube of tissue that extends from the large intestine. No one is absolutely certain what the function of the appendix is. One thing we do know is that we can live without it without any consequences.

NATIONAL President of National Association of Military Pensioners, Mr. Benson Eromafuru, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, till May 6, to pay the pension arrears of its members, those of the police and their civilian counterparts.

Rapper Chris Kelly, who shot to fame as part of the 1990s duo Kriss Kross, has been found dead at his home in Atlanta, reports said Thursday. He was 34.

By Charles Mgbolu Dapo D’banj Oyebanjo as you know him is not going to look the same when his video on new single Don’t tell me nonsense drops middle of this month. The dashingly clean shaven young man would be gone and in his place, a new D’banj! D’banj shared his new pictures on Instagram. […]

Global energy giant Shell on Thursday said in a surprise announcement that chief executive Peter Voser will retire next year, as it also posted falling first-quarter net profits on the back of lower crude oil prices.

Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes believes his side will have learnt from their heart-breaking loss to Chelsea on penalties in the Champions League final last season when they travel to Wembley to take on Borussia Dortmund in the final of this year’s competition.

Interim Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez on Wednesday refused to be drawn on speculation that Jose Mourinho is poised to return to Stamford Bridge at the end of the season to replace him in the dug-out.

When I read your trilogy on Biafra, published in The NEWS Magazine of 25, February, 4 and 11 March 2013, based on 21,000 pages of American Secret Files, as you claimed, I wondered whether it was the same Damola Awoyokun who wrote EINSTEIN AND THE EXPRESSWAY CHURCHES in resplendent logic and language that is writing again. To read 21,000 pages is quite a feat, even if each page contains one line only! The time needed to read 21,000 pages will certainly tend to infinity as we say in mathematics.

Yes! The UEFA Champions League semi-final came with surprises. As expected, not many soccer lovers believed that Barcelona and their arch-rival, Real Madrid would lost the way they did to their Germany counterparts-Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

Operatives at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigations Department ,SCID, Yaba , Lagos, have arrested a man who allegedly murdered his wife during a scuffle over his alleged affair with his wife’s employee, in Lagos.