Nollywood actress and President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima has lashed out at all those who blamed the AGN for abandoning late actor, Muna Obiekwe to his fate. Speaking during the candlelight service held in honour of the actor in Lagos, she revealed that she was shocked at reports going round that the AGN dumped Muna.

As the fire stoked by the two feuding communities, Ijaw and Itsekiri, continues to burn over the postponement of the ground breaking inauguration of the EPZ by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Ogwa of Warri Kingdom and former Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Roland Lere Oritsejafor, has advised them to sheath their swords and embrace the olive branch.

Scores of suspected members of Boko Haram were, yesterday, killed by troops of the Nigerian Army when they attempted to attack Damboa town, the headquarters of Damboa local government area of Borno State, sources said.

The intimidating crowd at the President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign rally in the capital city of Ondo state, Akure late last month had suggested what would play out at the Peoples Democratic Party local campaign rallies which kicked off in Idanre a week later.

The Enugu State Police Command has unravelled the killers of Mr. OJ Nwani of Enugu-East Magistrate Court who was murdered on September 1, 2014.

The crisis rocking the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity ( OATUU), which led to the suspension of the Executive Secretary, Nigeria’s Owei Lakemfa, took a new turn, last week ,with the refusal of Lakemfa to appear before a “Fact-Finding Committee “ of the Executive.

The National President of Committee of Defense of Human Rights (CDHR), Comrade Sunny Enennuwedia, has announced the postponement of the commissioning of its Rights House indefinitely.

Glaring lopsidedness in the composition of his Supreme Military Council and citing of Petroleum Special Trust Fund projects in favour of the North, in addition to hisoverarching concern for the promotion of puritanical Islam strongly indicate that Gen.Buhari might be a sectional leader and polarising figure if he becomes President.

LET me commence this discourse with a citation from the divine scripture I am familiar with:

“O mankind! Lo! We have created you from (a pair) of male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, fully aware” [Quran:49:13].

Ahead of the general elections, the House of Representatives candidate for Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency, Delta State, on the platform of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Hon. Perez Omoun, has enjoined youths in Bomadi not to succumb to intimidation from opposition parties and vote according to their conscience.

The PDP presidential candidate in the forthcoming polls, President Goodluck Jonathan, Friday night, decided to go spiritual as he made an appearance at the February Holy Ghost Service of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) where he knelt down as the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, led the congregation to pray for him.

Oyo is a state where many formidable power brokers are contesting in the next month governorship election. There is Teslim Folarin of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, whose source of strength is the federal might. There is the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Ishaq Abiola Ajimobi, who banks on the power of incumbency. And, of course, there is Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who still believes that the influence he wielded when he was governor of the Pace-setter State is intact to catapult him back to Agodi Government House.

Nollywood leading actress, Rita Dominic has broken away from her normal routine of acting to romance politics in the heat of the around-the-corner presidential election. In a letter she wrote to her fans, Rita explained why she and her company, Audrey Silva, a company she co-owns with her manager, Midred Okwo, shot a video to support President Goodluck Jonathan re-election bid.

A father of two, Qassim Balogun, is down with heart disease that is threatening his life.

ENGINEER Joe Igbokwe is the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, he expresses optimism that the party’s presidential candidate, Maj-Gen Muhammudu Buhari (rtd), will defeat the incumbent at the polls. He also bares his mind on INEC’s preparation for the general elections among other issues