Flying Eagles striker, Taiwo Awoniyi has admitted that the Nigeria’s U-20 national team are going to battle to win the 2015 Fifa U20 World Cup New Zealand later this month.

Without any shred of doubt, Sola Sobowale is a veteran actress with huge talent. Many would remember her as Toyin Tomato in Wale Adenuga’s hit TV series, Super Story. She is the effervescent character who could blend from one volatile act to another. Just when the movie viewing audience could not get enough of her she disappeared into thin air!

Enugu State House of Assembly, derisively referred to as docile, last Monday, cleaned its sleepy eyes at the twilight of the administration, seeking to impeach Governor Sullivan Chime over alleged financial misconduct, forgery and abuse of office. The House, which had had a convivial relationship with the executive, rose in unison, last month, against alleged recklessness of Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB, in the award of N3.6 billion contract for the prefabrication and renovation of 500 primary and secondary schools in state which its Chairman,Ms Nneka Onuorah had admitted before the House was poorly handled.

Nigerians are beginning to know more about our President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. During the electioneering campaigns which preceded the Presidential election of March 2015, a repeated documentary profiled him as a candidate who did not meet the basic educational requirement of the West African School Certificate. After he won the election, a new documentary surfaced crediting him with a Master’s degree in Defence Studies. If he had lost the election, perhaps the new documentary would have shown how he didn’t get near a primary school.

Ahead of the May 29, 2015, handover to the in-coming administration OF General Muhammadu Buhari, the Federal Government has recalled all Permanent Secretaries and Directors of government that were on leave to resume work with immediate effect.

English Premier League new entrants AFC Bournemouth, who won the English Championship this season, have been linked to Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins.

With less than three weeks to the start of the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, Nigeria’s opponent in their opening game, Brazil, have sacked coach Alexandre Gallo.

The contest for the Eighth Senate Presidency may have become a two-horse race between the North East and the North central geo-political zones.

The real game has not even got underway and already some of the elected officials want to change the rules. The “solidarity” visit of the governors-elect of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to President-elect Buhari, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 which resulted in the declaration above by Rochas Okorocha, newly appointed Chairman Progressives Governor’s Forum, PGF, portends grave consequences for all of us in many ways. The most glaring is the immediate cleavage created within the party by the governors elected on the ticket of the APC – at a time when many political analysts believe that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost the last election mostly on account of the over-bearing activities of its Governors Forum. APC Governors Forum is taking off where the PGF left off. The most obvious question arising from this is: do Africans, especially Nigerians, ever learn from theirs or other peoples’ mistakes? It is doubtful.

Understandably, passions were inflamed following the last month’s anti-immigrant attacks that left seven people dead and many others displaced and injured in South Africa.

Zoning to unzone” the words of the legendary Nigerian politician and wordsmith, Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe continues to offer useful political metaphor in these times. But what those words suggest was that zoning political offices at that time reflected the stage of Nigerian politics which was still fragmented by ethnic differences.

As the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, takes over from President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29 after 16 years of democracy, the leader of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams advises him to give priority to the implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference.

A musket, according to Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, is a military hand firearm, particularly of an antiquated smoothbore kind. A musketeer, therefore, is someone, a soldier most likely, armed with a musket. Somehow, the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may be likened to musketeers using revenge mentality and threats of probe as muskets against opponents, especially members of the outgoing administration and African Independent Television (AIT).

No fewer than 20 people, including 12 terrorists, were killed, while scores sustained gunshot injuries when a group of suspected Boko Haram insurgents invaded Ngulde Village of Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

The National Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, has said the decision to establish the Oodua Progressives Union, OPU, was based on the need to sustain the Yoruba identity.