Mixed reactions continued to trail the removal Wednesday of Bolaji Abdullahi as Sports Minister and his replacement with Tamuno Danagogo, with some stakeholders expressing shock and some hailing his removal.

IF Nigerians had taken the prescriptions of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, on fiscal federalism, regionalism and devolution of power to the federating units, the country would have frog-jumped the unending search for a people’s constitution and the attendant socio-economic and political retardation.

TRAGEDY struck, last weekend, at Obegu Autonomous Community in Ugwunagbo Local Government Area of Abia State when two youths, Nkwachukwu Onyeukwu and Eze Kafor, lost their lives over N1000

FROM the lips of some eminent Nigerians came commendation, yesterday, for the appointment of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi, as chairman of the National Conference.

The Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, will soon access its allocation of over N2.6 billion from the Federal Government for the development of more capital projects in the institution.

THERE is renewed tension between Overe Eku community in Agbon Kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State and Orogho community, Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State over boundary dispute

FORMER governor of Edo State, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, has said that the outcome of the National Conference scheduled to begin on March 18, 2014, will amount to nothing unless the issues of impunity, corruption and disrespect for the constitution, law and order were resolved by Nigerians

UNWHOLESOME frozen fish worth N2.2 million have been destroyed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC in Rivers State

The Kano Area office of Department of Petroleum Resource has blamed the ongoing fuel scarcity on the shortly of the petroleum product to the city by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation.

Following the Open Letter written by Sadiq Abacha which lashed Professor Wole Soyinka over his remarks on why he boycotted the Centenary celebrations which he called an insult to “share an award with Abacha”, writer and critique Ayo Sogunro has come to the defense of the Noble Laurette in an open letter to Sadiq Abacha.

NO fewer than 1,000 illegal structures have been demolished by the Dutse Capital Development Authority, DCDA, within Dutse metropolitans. The government equally established a mobile court to prosecute defaulters.

The former Coordinator of Orsu North Development Area of Imo state, Chief Damian Santa Okpara has been dragged to an Orlu High Court for the unlawful detention of one Chief Nelson Janel Okpara

Residents of Ikorodu, Imota, Agbowa, Epe and other neigbouring communities in Lagos East Senatorial District, Lagos, recently received an unexpected visitor in the person of the state governor, Babatunde Fashola.

A man and his wife were on Wednesday arraigned in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo for allegedly fighting nude in public over alleged infidelity.

The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan on the statement credited to him that he visited the state to champion the freedom of the people from political and socio-economic oppression, describing it as hypocritical .