My administration has done its sincere best in the past four years to implement its agenda for national transformation and move our country forward on several fronts.

Three Chinese tourists were killed and 17 injured in a road crash near Johannesburg this week, South Africa’s tourism minister announced Friday.

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Friday said his administration had repositioned the state and put it in the limelight in the last four years.

Taiwo Oshadipe, one of the Oshadipe twins, is dead.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said that national interest would override any personal ambition or sectional agenda in his decision to seek re-election in 2015 or not.

Passenger traffic was high at the domestic terminals of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos on Friday as travellers increased at the airport ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians to use the period of Eid-El-Kabir to re-dedicate themselves to God by rekindling the spirit of sacrifice, patience and love.

Top Nigerian journalists have continued to mourn the passing of Oluremi Oyo, the former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and a one time President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors. Mrs. Oluremi Oyo died at 62 in the United Kingdom on Thursday after battling with cancer. . Her colleagues have described her as an icon, a forthright journalist and a worthy role model.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Senate President, David Mark, and former governor of Lagos State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress , Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as well as former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasid Ladoja Friday, held separate closed-door meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo .

The phrase ‘‘Things were better in those days,’’ is a favourite among Nigeria’s senior citizens. It represents a flashback into a time that the younger generation cannot truly understand with words alone.

Your case is not hopeless. The number of years that you have been in that condition is not what matters. The end is always more glorious. Though your beginning may be small yet your latter end shall greatly increase. The solution will show up and your enemies will be ashamed. God is not through with you just yet

Authorities at the Nigeria Railway Corporation on Friday confirmed the death of a middle-aged woman believed to have been crushed to death by a train.

A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Friday, sentenced a man, Mohammed Mamman, to three months in prison for stealing 10 cartons of fruit juice in a market.

The authorities in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, said they have tried and convicted in secret three suspects on terror charges, reportedly linked to Boko Haram.

The coroner’s inquest into the recent collapse of a building within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations at Ikotun Egbe, a Lagos suburb, would commence sitting on Oct.13.