THE defection of popular Lagos politician, Jimi Agbaje to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has further galvanized the political landscape in Lagos as the two major political parties strategise to outsmart one another in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.

Only a handful of Nigerians know that the stage name known as ‘Basketmouth’ used to belong to another comedian other than Bright Okpocha, the comedian popularly known as ‘Basketmouth’. The first comedian to bear the name was Ernest Essien, an Akwa Ibom State-born humour merchant who was on the scene before Bright Akpocha.
He had to change the name ‘Basketmouth’ to ‘MC Miracle’, to avoid clash of identities with Bright Okpocha. Though MC Miracle hit stardom with his landmark mind-blowing joke ‘“Mfon-obong, itoro-obong, ima-obong, ekom-obong, dem go dey bobong bobong bong bong”, but his life has never been the same since changing his name ‘Basketmouth’ to ‘MC Miracle’. Hear his story:

Science and Technology experts at a two-day Senior Expert Dialogue, SED, said Nigeria can benefit from the Open Data market which has the potential to save and generate about $3 trillion globally.

THE Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC has brokered a meeting between the National Automative Council, NAC and the freight forwarding groups over the new auto policy that has resulted in the increase of duty on imported fairly used vehicles by 70 percent.

The Raw Material Research and Development Council, RMRDC, has urged Nigerians to queue up and be counted in the drive for a new dawn in industrial development of the country.