THE trite debates about its importance apart, May 29 frightens politicians – it annually reminds them of how close they are to leaving office or worse still, the nearness of the mandatory renewal of their electoral mandate.

PORT HARCOURT—FORMER Head, Counter Terrorism Bureau of the United States, State Department, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, described Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, commonly called Boko Haram as the deadliest terrorist group in the world, noting that it killed at least seven persons in each attack in the North eastern part of the country.

IT is an unusual suspense that many political stakeholders may not have bargained for. That is, the inertia that has suddenly gripped the Nigerian political class nine months to a decisive presidential election.

A young man, named, Ibrahim Tilitili was said to have been paid the sum of two thousand Naira (N2,000), to burn down few houses at Mandara Girau village in Biu local government area of Borno state

Cameroon’s Foot-ball Federation and the country’s government have agreed to pay FCFA 50m (US$104,000) to each player in the final 23-man World Cup squad.

Nigeria’s nominal Gross Domestic Product, GDP, now stands at $509.9 billion, making the nation’s economy the largest in Africa and the 26th in the world, according to the results of the rebasing exercise of the federal government.

ABEOKUTA—For the second time in a month, former governor of Ogun State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Olusegun Osoba and some party chieftains will today hold a consultative meeting with his loyalists on the crisis rocking the ruling party in Ogun State.

THE Governing Council of National Development Summit of Traditional Rulers, NDSTR, has directed its subjects nationwide to provide adequate support to security agencies and the intervening foreign security agencies to ensure the defeat of Boko Haram terror.

There was fracas at the Unity Fountain in Abuja Wednesday where a coalition of women groups under the umbrella of #Bringbackourgirls” have been protesting against the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok in Borno State since last Month.

The Senate, yesterday, said that the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi lied by saying that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, misapplied $49.8 billion accruing from crude oil sales. It said that only $20 billion or N3.26 trillion was missing.

Globacom Premier League contenders, Rangers International Football Club of Enugu have been hit by acute financial crisis that can affect the club’s current league campaign unless urgent steps are taken to arrest the situation.

LAGOS— No fewer than 200 officials of the Sure-P Federal Task Force have been arrested by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences in their training ground at the old Lagos toll gate and taken to the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja.

Senator Ganiyu Solomon is a second term senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District. Before then, he spent a term in the House of Representatives, representing Mushin Federal Constituency, where he also served as local government chairman.

A complete grassroots mobiliser, Solomon is one of a handful of aspirants in the race to succeed Governor Babatnde Fashola

The United States said, yesterday, that it does not have information to support the claim by the Nigerian military that it knows the whereabouts of the more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.

AS part of efforts to further ensure trade facilitation and faster clearance of goods from the ports, the management of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, are to partner for the establishment of a Single Window, an all inclusive electronic trade platform for stakeholders.