Barcelona’s Lionel Messi struck twice and set up Neymar in the final 13 minutes as Pep Guardiola’s return to the Camp Nou as Bayern Munich coach ended in a 3-0 defeat in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final.

AS the scarcity of petrol bites harder across Ondo state , major marketers of the commodity now divert their consignment to independent marketers who sell between N150 and N300 per litre.

The final polls released on the eve of Britain’s general election on Thursday showed main rivals Labour and the Conservatives locked in a dead heat.

The Labour Party, LP, has opposed plea made by All Progressive Congress, APC, governors to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhar, retd, to help them to pay salaries owed to workers in their various states when he assumed office after May 29.

The London stock market pulled lower in opening deals on Thursday as Britons headed to the polls in a knife-edge general election.

Mrs Kudirat Adeboye, the 52-year-old businesswoman who was rescued from a forest used as kidnappers den along Epe Road, Lagos, two weeks ago, by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS yesterday, gave a chilling account of her six-day ordeal in the hands of her abductors.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday cleared the FG of blame over the inability of some state governments to pay their workers’ salaries.

ENUGU—Barely weeks to the May 29 handover date, residents in Enugu State are expectant that the incoming administration of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi would impact positively on the people in order to alleviate their sufferings. South-East Voice spoke to a cross section of residents who charged Ugwuanyi to focus on key sectors of education, health, workers welfare and employment.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali has chided the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its recent utterances urging the party to talk less and plan more as the nation moves towards the 29th May inauguration date.

Barely 23 days to the inauguration of Lagos State governor-elect, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu I, yesterday, narrated how some of his relatives wanted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje and not Ambode to succeed Fashola.

President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) yesterday, reassured Nigerians that the incoming government of All Progressives Congress, APC, will not fail them.

Buhari, who hosted a delegation from Taraba State, also said by the end of his tenure in 2019, Nigerians would be confident of a society where elections would be free, fair and credible.

The fuel situation in the country appears to have defied all solutions, as the scarcity worsened yesterday, heightening the sufferings of motorists and the public in general.
Despite promises made by oil marketers, Monday, that the country will be flooded with petrol in the coming days, the situation had continued to deteriorate on a daily basis with people finding it increasingly difficult to buy the commodity.

AS the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to bicker over its poor performance at the last general elections, Senate President, David Mark, yesterday, warned that the party will die if the leadership, stakeholders and members did not urgently nip in the bud all internal squabbles and media hostilities.

ENUGU – THE Eighth Council on Health Meeting has ended in Enugu with the state government saying that it spent N800 million on procurement of drugs in the last eight years of Governor Sullivan Chime’s administration. Stakeholders that attended the meeting included the World Health Organisation, WHO, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF; the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS; National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA as well as the Nigerian Medial Association, NMA among others.

The Presidency, Wednesday, chided the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its claim that President Jonathan is running the economy aground before handing over, saying “the allegation is immature, reckless and out of tune with the President’s desire and patriotic commitment to a peaceful transfer of power.”