Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted on Friday that a traumatic last six weeks both on and off the field will mark him for the rest of his life.

After the tussle for its release in Nigeria, “Half of A Yellow Sun”, a screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s bestselling novel,will be available in cinemas across the country from the 1st of August 2014. The film was one of the 77 movies recently approved by the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB.

The governor-elect of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, yesterday, said that the Peoples Democratic Party will in 2015 defeat the main opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-West states, stating that the APC should prepare to leave the states it is currently in control of.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Lagos State Command on Friday said that it arrested more than 200 suspected irregular immigrants in a week.

1980 Africa Cup of Nations winner Adokye Amiesimaka has faulted FIFA’s suspension of Nigeria from all football-related activities.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reiterated the commitment of his administration to provide affordable shelter for all Nigerians.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said the only way to get uninterrupted electricity supply in the country is to vote out the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP from power in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, General Overseer, Trinity House, Lagos, opined that although Nigeria is one of the countries with the highest number of churches and worshippers, there’s need to understand that both Christian and Islamic religions are still young in their existence.

THE Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, yesterday, said it had awarded the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, to 17 legal practitioners in the country.

Juju maestro, Evangelist Ebenezer Obey, has every reason to feel fulfilled, not only as a musician but also as academnician as Olabisi Onabanjo University has conferred on him the honour of Professor of Music and is expected to be a visiting artiste in the department of English and performing arts.

Lydia Nnenna Obute is an Austrian born Nigerian model and actress, best known for being the winner of the season three of Austria’s Next Topmodel in 2011. Born to Igbo parents, Obute was born in Lower Austria.

Senate President David Mark has waded into the dispute between the Fresh Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC over the deregistration of the party founded by Rev. Chris Okotie, according to a statement issued in Lagos by Ladi Ayodeji, the party’s spokesman.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has described the late human rights lawyer, Mr Bamidele Aturu, as one of the most dependable allies of the masses.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has declared that it will be love lost between Governors of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and their All Progressives Congress,APC, counterparts in the Niger Delta, saying they would meet on the field in 2015.

His story evokes emotions as he told it. He sat on his sofa in his large sitting room telling it. For the first time since he was impeached in December 2005, subsequently incarcerated, freed and finally granted a state pardon by President Goodluck Jonathan on March 12, 2013, he has not told the story of his travails.