OHANAEZE Youth Council has condemned the serial media attacks and campaign of calumny against the outgoing governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, by his predecessor and estranged political mentor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, saying it was time the former governor put a halt to the unnecessary attacks.

All Progressive Congress, APC, chieftain, Chief Iyke Kenechukwu, has described recent changes in the nation’s political landscape as a divine mandate that will help the country move forward.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said that it had confiscated and destroyed counterfeited drugs valued at over N27 billion in the last five years.

OUTGOING Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has said that his absence from the House after he has been sworn in as the Governor of Sokoto State will not lead to any form of constitutional crisis.

The people of Aladja, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, have denied media reports that they were attacking the people of Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state.

THE Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has urged the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to look beyond his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in constituting his cabinet and making other appointments, advising him to look for capable hands wherever he could find them.

Three tech-savvy female secondary school students last week grabbed federal government’s N1 million Application Innovation Awards price sum in Abuja for overcoming the fear of technology. The three lucky lasses emerged victorious in the contest out of over 89 other entries for developing website and software applications on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Child Adoption and Health.

HOW did we get here? How is it that a country like Nigeria borrows not to fund infrastructure and lift its people out of extreme poverty but to pay salaries and fund its recurrent expenditure? Quite honestly, I am not surprised that national debt now stands at 63 billion dollars. We are a country of showmen who would rather spend on frivolities than on anything of substance with long lasting effects on our lives.

A teenage girl, Chidima Sunday, was yesterday charged before an Ojo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly attempting to kill a man, Francis Ikemefuna, by stabbing him.

Last week, the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, told the nation in an interview with a national newspaper that he gets confused when Nigerians talk about subsidy.

As part of the initiative to provide Nigerian youths with the right skills to increase their chances of employ ability and make them more productive within the workplace, SAP Africa has launched Smart Academy. The project is aimed at promoting skills development on the continent and in alignment with SAP’s Skills for Africa programme.

WHEN Goodluck Jonathan steps down in two days time and Muhammadu Buhari takes over as president, he would have helped to give practical demonstration to that much remarked (in our parts) but hardly realised notion of popular democracy, that sovereignty lies with the people. By handing over power to Buhari, Jonathan would only be abiding by the will of the people who said, on March 28 2015, that they wanted a change of leadership.

Media reports of the purported adoption of Senator Ahmed Lawan from North East as the consensus candidate weeks after the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had zoned the Senate Presidency to the North Central, are worrisome.

The Kogi State National and State House of Assemblies Election Petitions Tribunal has commence pre- hearing of petitions.

The Sun photo-journalist for the South-East, Mr. Okoro Ferguson Nwosu, is dead, aged 66.