Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital was yesterday locked down as the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan returned home to a heroic welcome from Bayelsans who in their thousands converged at the Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre to receive him.

The Borno Police Command on Friday confirmed the killing of six persons after a sucide bomber attacked a venue of wedding fatiha in Tashan Alade in Hawul Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno. Mr Aderemi Opadokun stated this in an interview with Journalists in Maiduguri on Friday.

President Muhammadu Buhari ended his 1,972 word inaugural speech yesterday with the affirmation that the country now has an opportunity which must not be wasted.

Remarkably, the speech was laced with several opportunities before the nation – some new opportunities and many others fallow opportunities that had constrained the country to a prostrate giant, useless at home and fickle abroad.

Muhammadu Buhari made history yesterday on two fronts: the first person to defeat an incumbent president in an election and also, as the first person in Nigeria’s democratic history to have desired power and obtained it!

Violence erupted yesterday at the Murtala Mohammed Square venue of the inauguration of Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i as the Kaduna state Governor. Scores of injured persons were rushed to the nearby Barau Dikko Hospital for medical attention. Trouble started at about 11 am after El-Rufa’i took the Oath Office and the Oath of Allegiance when some unidentified youths started throwing missiles at the VIP stand, directed essentially at the Emir of Zazzau, Dr. Shehu Idris.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has retained the Secretary to the State Government, Rabi’u Sulaiman Bichi in a gale of appointments announced Friday morning in Kano. The appointment was shortly after his inauguration. Bichi served the immediate past Governor, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso in the same capacity.

“I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody,” President Buhari said even as he put earlier pledges to deal decisively with the Boko Haram insurgency with the order to relocate the command and control centre fighting the insurgency to Maiduguri.

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GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan’s first baptism as a troubleshooter was not as the chief executive of Delta State, but as a Commissioner under the administration of his political tutor and ex-governor, Chief James Ibori, starting from his very first day in public office in 1999. The trial case was the Warri crisis and he remained a principal peace broker for the government until 2006 when he resigned as Secretary to the State Government, SSG, to contest for governorship.

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Waje and Yemi Alade recently collaborated with One campaign to launch Strong Girl, a new song and music video aimed at empowering women and girls around the world.