The 2015 general elections in Nasarawa State suddenly took a new dimension with the emergence of Labaran Maku, a former Minister of Information, who recently decamped from the PDP to All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to pick the governorship ticket.

Senator Smart Adeyemi has become part of those Nigerians who towered to the height of national recognition. Though this attainment may not be anything peculiar, there is another side of the ebullient senator that makes him different from many other politicians.

Nigerian leaders were, yesterday, charged to show consistency in their actions towards the building of a greater nation.

SIGNS of abject poverty in the society was evident on Thursday in Akure, Ondo State capital as miscreants exchanged blows over the sharing formular to be adopted for the 11 cows crushed to death by a luxurious bus.

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.