A 4-year-old boy was re-elected mayor of the community of Dorset in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota.

At the opening of Financial Bids for Kaduna Distribution Company (DISCO) and Afam Generation Company (Genco) which held on July 31, 2013 in Abuja, Northwest Power Ltd had the highest Aggregate Technical Commercial and Collection Loss reduction (AT&C) of 29.26 % with respect to Kaduna Disco while Taleveras Group emerged the preferred bidder for Afam Genco with an offer price of $260,050,000.

Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly signed a new five-year deal with Real Madrid worth £75million to keep him at the club for the rest of his career.

Sir Victor Olaiya, a high life maestro and childhood friend of the late Pa Ademola Fashola, on Monday said he would miss the deceased a lot.

Clashes between Nigeria’s military and Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in two northeastern towns have left at least 35 people dead, most of them insurgents, the army said on Monday.

THE world over, non-governmental organisations, NGOs, are agencies or social movements that open up the liberal political space, engender equalisation of opportunities, improve the circumstances of disadvantaged peoples and institutions and hold governments to account.

Cashew farmers, processors, traders, exporters, service providers, retailers, among other stakeholders will on16- 19 September 2013, convene in Accra, Ghana, for this year’s World Cashew Festival, WCF.

WILLIAM HAZLIT in his book says ” the least pain in our finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions”.

The Federal Government has declared Aug. 8 and Aug. 9 public holidays to mark the 2013 Eid-el-Fitri celebration.

IT will fail for the simple reason that autonomy for local governments is like one wearing a borrowed robe. It will either be oversized or undersized since it was not your measurement that was used in sewing it.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Monday in Abuja received a cheque of N25 million from the League Management Company (LMC).

Imo State Government says it will play a prominent role in the proposed construction of a 1,000-bed space hall of residence for post graduate students at the new site of the University of Ibandan, UI.

Manchester United have rejected a second bid from Premier League rivals Chelsea for unsettled England forward Wayne Rooney, United confirmed on Monday.

Mr Ademola Fashola, father of Governor Babatunde Fashola  of Lagos State, is dead.

Prof. Uade Ugbomoiko of the Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin, has said that malaria is taking a heavy toll on Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).