Kwara State House of Assembly has passed a bill seeking to change the name of Kwara State University, KWASU to Abubakar Sola Saraki University, ASSU.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will host the new queen of track and field, Blessing Okagbare today at the Aso Rock Villa.

EX-militant commanders in the Niger Delta region have warned the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, to call former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to order over his alleged plot to rob President Goodluck Jonathan of a second term in office.

FORMER Chief Whip of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Ejaife Odebala, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to take practical steps to rescue the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from collapse.

The Federal Prisons, Owerri, originally built to accommodate only 548 inmates is now housing a total of 1,827 persons.

The house of cards that is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seems to have finally fallen apart. From the beginning, the PDP like the typical Nigerian party was a marriage of convenience among persons and groups united by no greater purpose than the desire to share in the Nigerian national cake that everyone is loathe to bake.

‘You dey bleach O, you dey bleach, yellow fever. You dey bleach O, you dey bleach, yellow fever…” This was the way the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti expressed his own reservation about African women, particularly Nigerian women, who indulge in the controversial habit of skin bleaching.Fanta face, Coca-Cola body”, is one derogatory expression often used to describe the habitual skin bleaching individual. Today, maintaining lighter skin tone has more or less become the norm for the average Nigerian woman. From Lagos to Maiduguri and Sokoto to Port Harcourt, the story is the same.

United States of America, Israel, the United Kingdom and Austria are among the countries that have indicated interest to bring their security expertise and gadgets to Nigeria in a bid to tackle security challenges facing the country.

Federal Government has mandated the Infrastructure Bank Plc to raise N167 billion for the reconstruction of the 127-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan dual carriage way.

The three governorship aspirants of the Bamanga Tukur led faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, yesterday, ignored the 24 hours ultimatum given to them to dissociate themselves from the new PDP, nPDP.