The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, cleared the fog on the circumstance surrounding the whereabouts of Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, saying he had been requested to proceed on leave of absence not outright removal as had been widely speculated.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has begun investigating the former University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Vice Chancellor, Professor Bartho Okolo and some of the top officials who worked with him over alleged financial matters.

THE Edo Unity League, a socio cultural organisation in Edo State yesterday threatened to protest to Abuja to make the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar to compel the four suspended members of the state House of Assembly to obey the court order restraining them from entering the Assembly premises.

The former Minister of Power, Prof. Bartholomew Nnaji has emphasized the need for government to speedily implement the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saying its passage would help improve the power sector.

Professional makeup artiste and beauty expert, Vanessa Odofin has said that make up in most Nollywood movies do not portray the characters suitably enough for the roles they play.

There has come to you Ramadan, a blessed month which Allah has enjoined you to fast, during which the gates of heaven are opened and the gates of Hell are closed, and the rebellious devils are chained up. In it there is a night which is better than a thousand months, and whoever is deprived of its goodness is indeed deprived.

How do you combine two dissimilar worlds of music and politics? Perhaps, this is a question only Chimbuiko Akarolo, The Mayor of Portharcourt city could answer. Known as C-Strokes in the music industry, the Mayor has one album to his credit and he is rearing to conquer more in music and politics.

Hope for a better life is on the way of cancer patients, particularly, those from Nigeria and other West African countries as a new study has raised the prospect that some cancer patients with aggressive tumours may benefit from a class of anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the inclusion of Forte Oil Plc in the list of its ‘high priced stocks’.

The National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has directed all operators in the inland water transport business to ensure that all their water craft are painted white with green inscription of their names and that of the craft.

Three days into the ongoing strike by public sector doctors, patients abandoned in hospitals nationwide, yesterday, cried out that they were dying slowly, and prayed for God’s intervention to settle the rift between the government and the striking doctors.

FORMER military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd.) and the National President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday, charged Muslim religious, political and traditional leaders to take advantage of the current Ramadan season to engage the dreaded Islamist sect, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram, in superior ideological dialogue to end rising terrorist attacks in the country.

As the blessed month of Ramadan commences, it is incumbent upon all Muslims to identify the meritorious acts in the blessed month and how to do those acts. No doubt, one of the factors that places Islam ahead of other religions is that there are laid down rules on how to perform every acts. One of them is fasting in the month of Ramadan.

IBADAN — Commercial motorcyclists at Ajibode area of Ibadan, yesterday, blocked the only motorable road to the area in protest of the death of two persons, including an okada rider.

THERE is no doubt that many patriotic Nigerians would prefer to engage themselves in argument on how Nigeria could attain greatness and maintain such to merit the appellation of the gGiant of Africah bestowed on it by the benevolent foreign friends of the country.