Mr. Oladele John Nihi from Kogi state has started trekking from Abuja to Otuoke, the hometown of President Goodluck Jonathan, to celebrate him (Jonathan) as the hero of democracy.

IT is now history that Change has come to take its roots in Nigeria with the victory of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the March 28 General elections. Since then, there have been alignments and realignments by the political class with quick defections akin to the speed of light, or should I say, Usain Bolt, with many quickly dumping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to embrace the APC.

Regrettably, delayed payments of verified subsidy claims, may inadvertently also further bloat the already oppressive service charges on loans obtained to finance the 2015 budget deficit and other earlier government debts. Curiously, the imminent federal and state elections, may have forced government to accede to pressure from marketers to pay the demanded balance of N256.2bn, which they claimed included core subsidy as well as interest on delayed payments and exchange rate differentials.

LAGOS — Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Lagos State, have nabbed two robbery suspects for allegedly robbing residents, commuters and commercial cyclists, popularly known as Okada.

Very soon, bank customers that have multiple naira debit cards linked to different banks accounts would not be able to spend more than $50,000 for overseas transaction through their cards.

IF we are to judge the future of Nigeria by the promises that appear on election posters, Nigeria is about to become one of the most developed countries in the world. Candidates and their parties have managed to capture issues affecting Nigerians and listed them for solution, once they get our votes. Are we not used to politicians and their pranks? What is different from what they promised in 1999 and 16 years after?

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has assured members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state that the government, in collaboration with other stakeholders, will work assiduously to reorganise the party with a view to regaining political power at the national level in 2019.

Contrary to the earlier three months period given by the World Health organisation, WHO, for Ebola survivors to abstain from unprotected sex, further investigations by United States’ Centre for Disease Control, CDC, has shown that survivors may have to wait for a longer period.

Emerging global news and entertainment channel, ARISE NEWS, on Saturday night won at the New York Emmys for the documentary: ‘Game Changers: How the Harlem Globetrotters Battled Racism.’

REspected action governor of the old Midwest Region, Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, is one of the sterling lights of achievers in public office. His performance as a military governor between 1967 and 1975 stirred the feverish agitation for his return as civilian governor of the now defunct Bendel State in 1983. Ogbemudia also held some senior positions at the federal level during the military hiatus, and at the return of politicking in 1998, was one of the conveners of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State and remains a member of the Board of Trustees of the party

We cannot develop our industrial base if we are bent on patronising imported goods. What I am going to do to be very specific, is from time to time, I have meetings in Abuja and I am going to put it on the table; I am actually working on a presentation which I intends to make to the Federal Government.

THE Defence Headquarters, yesterday, said the man who specialised in supplying fuel and food to terrorists was nabbed in the early hours of Sunday at Daban Shata in the suburbs of Baga Borno State.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told the state Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, that any attempt to proceed with the planned local government elections scheduled for May 23, amounts to an open disrespect to the court of competent jurisdiction which had ordered that status-quo-ante be maintained, adding that doing so would be futile.

TRACKING the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin’s was a Herculean task but Vanguard eventually tracked him down to one of his hideouts in the Southwest from where he was able to speak on the issues with Governor Ayodele Fayose, the threats against him and his colleagues and the alleged impunities of the governor

Lagos—National Association of Nurses and Mid-wife, Lagos State Council has raised concerns over the continuous shortage of nurses and mid-wife in the State owned hospitals.