Largely, the 2015 contest had the trappings of the last governorship election in 2011 when the former governor, Alhaji Danjuma Goje adopted incumbent Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo as both his political god son and candidate for the office.

A brace by striker Taiwo Awoniyi qualified Nigeria to the football event of the 2015 All Africa Games yesterday as they beat hosts Zambia 2-1.

Lagos State governor-elect, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday said his victory at the April 11 polls has changed 60 years history of the state, even as it marked the commencement of social and moral contracts.

Nigeria’s economic potential is well known. The country’s considerable resource endowment and coastal location ordinarily should allow the emergence of a strong growth pole for Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, Nigeria has realised very little of this potential. Instead, its history has been marked by economic stagnation and associated with declining welfare and social instability.

As the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) prepares to announce the inflation update for March, 2015 (Q1 round-up) economy analysts are expecting further push up not just for the March, 2015 but also indicating further rises in the months through second quarter 2015 and beyond going by some underlying factors. NBS is set to release the figures officially by Thursday this week.