Michelle Obama suggested a lunch date with Shinzo Abe at his wife’s restaurant on Thursday, offering the Japanese prime minister a place at her table next time she is in town.

An Indonesian court Thursday adjourned the latest legal bid by two Australian drug smugglers to avoid the firing squad, as Jakarta said they will not be executed until appeals filed by several convicts are completed.

Amnesty International on Thursday said two major oil companies operating in Nigeria, Shell and ENI, reported a combined 553 oil spills in 2014, a “seriously alarming” figure that qualifies as a “national emergency.”

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says it is targeting to rake in about $224 million from the auction of 2.6GHz spectrum band in May this year.

Worried by the state of affairs of the nation in the last 16 years, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Buhari yesterday said that the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has sentenced Nigeria to underdevelopment.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has hailed President Goodluck Jonathan for the 50 percent reduction in electricity tariff in the country.

Pandemonium broke out yesterday, when some members of the People’s Democratic Party in Ogun State held National Auditor , Chief Fatai Adeyanju and South West Secretary, Pegba Otemolu hostage over their alleged refusal to release the fund allegedly meant for the state co-ordinators engaged for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election .

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has uncovered yet another in the series of devilish plots being hatched against the leadership of the party, this time involving a huge amount of money (in US dollars) which are being ferried into Nigeria by some people who will then claim they were hired as cash couriers by APC leaders.

FOR the third time in four years, a stowaway ‘flew’ Arik Air, the largest commercial airline in Nigeria. In October, 2012, the lifeless body of a stowaway was found in the hold of Arik’s Lagos-New York flight.

Investors in the Nigerian stock market have lost over N428.7 billion in three days’ trading as the market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE further declined yesterday by 0.40 per cent.

INFORMATION dissemination is key in any democratic dispensation. Lack of it creates rumour and disenchantment. This is why the media is a partner in progress, in any meaningful democracy. If government is doing what is expected of it, it is through effective dissemination of information that the citizen is made aware and if the reverse is the case, then, the government would be on its toes to redeem.

Ilorin, the town where two of the country’s major cultural streaks, Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba melt into one was the host to two of the country’s major political icons this week.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has castigated the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) and its presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) for seeking the votes of Yorubas and people of Edo and Delta States rather than asking for their forgiveness

Members of the Chibok community, yesterday, sent a delegation to President Goodluck Jonathan to urge greater government efforts at re-taking the remaining areas of Borno State still held by Boko Haram, with the hope of rescuing their daughters who were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School , GGSS, Chibok, last year.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has promised to declare his assets and liabilities once elected and sworn into office.