Personal Data: Other Names: Oluyemi Oluleke, Date of Birth: 8th March, 1957, Place of Birth: Creek Hospital, Lagos, Home Address: 4, Osinbajo Close, Obanikoro, Ikorodu Road, Lagos, Nigeria. Nationality: Nigerian, Marital Status: Married.

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun yesterday revealed that he resisted several external efforts to truncate the just concluded presidential election of the party in Lagos.

AHEAD of the nation’s constitution amendment, Abia and Anambra states’ Houses of Assembly, have voted in favour of local government autonomy recently proposed by the National Assembly.

ASABA—Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has presented a budget proposal of N327.68 billion for the 2015 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.

Foreign-based duo of Seun Ajetunmobi and Olaide Atinuke as well as Fatimo Bello and 50 year-old Taofeek Maya are in race for the titles at the end-of-the-year Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) organised tagged President’s Cup.

THE West African Examinations Council, WAEC, in its bid to encourage brilliant students and bring healthy competition among West African students, yearly presents awards for outstanding performance in May/June WASSCE.

OSOGBO—Justice Jide Falola of an Osun State High Court sitting in Okuku has sentenced two robbers to death for stealing fowls.

EFFORTS to apply the 2011 Freedom of Information Act, FOIA and 2003 Child Rights Act, CRA, nationally, indicate that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Peoples Congress, APC, – Nigeria’s major political parties – reject these laws primed on accountability and Nigeria’s future.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stalwarts, in Warri, Delta State, yesterday inaugurated a new political forum known as PDP Crusaders which seeks to inject new energy into the campaign project of Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the party’s governorship candidate for next year’s election.

NIGERIAN politics is becoming more intriguing by the day. At last week’s national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, we thought, as usual, that money was going to make the essential difference.

As the winner of the October Rookie of the month contest, Oluwamitosin Tobun Hannah, a creative blogger and a Computer Science student at Taraba State University, received “The Spark”- an incentive to kick-start her business success- from The Spark B.O.S.S., Illyrmz, Celebrity and Nigerian Idol host. On the 26th of November, 2014, Oluwamitosin Tobun was empowered with Social Media Internship with Illyrmz at his company, Contagious Collective. This is definitely her first step towards achieving her dreams.

The Federal Government has concluded plans to privatise eight new entities in some sectors of the economy by 2015.

HOW corrupt is the government of President Goodluck Jonathan? The answer may vary depending on who is interpreting the latest global corruption index from Transparency International.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday ruled that the Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria, STOAN, and Association of Shipping Lines Agency, ALSA, should return to status-quo over shipping and terminal storage charges.

The General Court Martial sitting at the Army Headquarters Garrison in Abuja yesterday sentenced 54 soldiers to death after finding them guilty of mutiny. 59 soldiers were on trial on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy to commit mutiny and mutiny.