The New Horizons, a concert series put together by world-renowned composer, celist and Kora virtuoso, Tunde Jegede which opened on Sunday at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Centre, Lagos, was as electrifying and thrilling as it was inspiring. It held as part of one of the Musical Society of Nigeria’s (MUSON)core mission of developing talents and offering them a unique platform to express their musical creativity to the whole world.

Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, have paid a courtesy visit to the executive of the faction of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, under the leadership of Chief Tuesday Onoge, promising to support and promote Urhobo interest.

The war ravaged theatre lovers in and around the city of Jos, the Plateau State capital will heave a sigh of relief as the 9th edition of the annual Jos Festival of Theatre opens with its theatrical performance. The 2015 festival which will feature five plays alongside a pre-festival play a few days to the opening is scheduled to open from March 10th and last to March 14th 2015.

Commercial activities were grounded for the better part of yesterday at the densely populated Oshodi area of Lagos, following a renewed clash between factions of the National Union of Transport Workers, NURTW, which left three persons dead and several others injured.

AS part of the measures by the government to improve accessibility to health care services in rural communities, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Lagos state, has collaborated with the Lagos state Ministry for Rural Development to initiate a rural health project.

The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has said that the International Ships and Ports facility Security (ISPS) Code compliance level has risen from a mere 7 per cent to 83 per cent in the last two years.

PAstor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is the Director-General of the Jonathan/Sambo presidential campaign in Edo State. In this interview with Vanguard, he insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan will win the presidential election despite the seeming popularity of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He also dismissed claims by Governor Adams Oshiomhole that the people of the state will not vote for President Jonathan asserting that the President has impacted positively on the lives of the people of the state and would therefore win the state

ABUJA — As preparations for the Presidential polls slated for March 28 intensify, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in the House of Representatives have put forward a number of demands for President Goodluck Jonathan to meet as a condition for supporting him to win the March 28 election.

ABUJA —With barely 10 days to the end of the extension granted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for registered voters to pick their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), as much as 15 million PVCs are still lying at the various collection centres across the country.

DR Austin Nweze, a social commentator and governorship candidate on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ebonyi State, in this interview explains why he wants to govern the state.