Goalkeeper and skipper of the Super Eagles at the ongoing CHAN African Nations Championship, Chigozie Agbim, has attributed his quick return to form to the counseling of Head Coach Stephen Keshi, his family members and fans who kept urging him on when others had written him off.

The emergence of former Governor Adamu Mu‘azu as the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday, was a convergence of interests of the principal stakeholders of the party: notably the governors and the president. He is a bridge between the many divides in a crises ridden party.

ELDER STATESMAN and leader of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has dismissed as false comments attributed to Senator Femi Okurounmu that he wrote President Goodluck Jonathan asking for a mandate to handpick delegates to prepare a draft constitution.

ON Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

ALLEGED plans by some ex-militants to embark on a violent protest in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, today, has been uncovered, the state government has claimed.
Meanwhile, the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has appealed to Save Rivers Movement, to stay away from the area for the time being.

The idea behind the establishment of model colleges by the Lagos State government, was to provide a comprehensive residential education programme for students.

Both schools in focus are under the Badagry Education district. One of six educational districts in the state. The schools are Iworo-Ajido Model College and Kankon Model College.

Enugu State police command said Sunday that it has arrested six persons for allegedly setting ablaze shrines belonging to some families at Umuaji Aguobuowa in Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state.
The suspects, who are members of a group known as Indigenous Christians of Umuaji, led by one Joseph Nnaeme, alias 404, were said to have in the early hours of January 7, 2014, burned down several ”sacred shrine houses” in the community.

Shale boom race has gotten a new entry, Australia, according to a new analytical report, stating that all eyes would be on the country as it could turn out to be the most attractive venue for shale and tight oil and gas.

The Labour Party in Ekiti State, has accused Governor Kayode Fayemi of engineering crisis in the state.

The Amalgamated Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria, ACDAN, has threatened to stop conveying cattle to southern parts of the country following alleged extortion by security men at various road blocks across the country.