AT last, Anambra has joined the league of states that have elected people at the third tier of government. The ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the state made a clean sweep of the local government election held on Saturday, 11th January, 2014. The party won 20 chairmanship and 304 councillorship seats in the 20 local government areas where elections were held. Othe parties won 14 councillorship seats. Election did not take place in Nnewi North local government area and the state Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, has fixed today for the exercise to be conducted in the area.

The World Health Organization on Friday declared Pakistan’s troubled northwestern city of Peshawar as the world’s “largest reservoir” of endemic polio and called for urgent action to boost vaccination.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni views gays as “sick” but does not believe they should be jailed or executed and will block a push by parliament to impose tough penalties, his spokesman said Friday.

A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Friday slammed a N100,000 bail on a 24-year-old tailor, Lukman Suleiman, for beating a solider with a stick.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insisted on Friday the club were “not desperate to win the Premier League title” this season, saying he was more concerned about long-term success.

The chatter is fast-paced and the laughter infectious in the studios of Lagos radio station Wazobia FM.

The naira appreciated marginally against the dollar at the official and parallel markets on Friday

Lagos State government, yesterday, said it has commenced prosecution of about 60 tax defaulters in the state which include unnamed eminent citizens.

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has advised Nigerians to always obey God’s commandments.

Nigeria’s raw sugar imports dropped to 800,000 tonnes from 1.4 million tonnes recorded in the first quarter of 2013, an official document states.

The youths operating under the aegis of Coalition of Youth Organizations for National Conference (COYONAC), also said that with the big size of the Nigerian youths, they had agreed to demand unanimously 30 percent of the country’s political representation in the forthcoming dialogue.

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has joined Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka in pleading with President Goodluck Jonathan to send controversial Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Mbu Joseph Mbu, to Borno or Yobe state to help end the Boko Haram menace.

FIFA, world football governing body, is examining the possibility of introducing a Women’s Club World Cup.

A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, on Friday said that he would soon decide on his 2015 ambition.

The Lagos State University (LASU) may not participate in the 24th Nigerian University Games (NUGA) scheduled to hold from Feb.12 to Feb.22 at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun.