Nigerians from all walks of life have been admonished to rally round President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, with a view to helping him actualize his dream for a better Nigeria.

Karo Ekewenu, a United Nations Ambassador on Millennium Development Goals, speaks on the general elections in Nigeria, Delta State politics, President Goodluck Jonathan and the roles of the international community and personalities of note in the democratic journey to the polls.

This week, there was a story doing the rounds that Wole Soyinka had made derogatory remarks about Igbo people, that he said: that they “tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them” and suffer “from incurable money-mindedness” during his lecture at Harvard. All hell broke loose and the poor man was pilloried by readers of the story, a few people were cautious of the source and the content of the story but many threw insults and such language used, it would not be polite to repeat it in polite company

Sitting second in the log with 13 points from 7 matches, newly promoted Ifeanyi Uba United has been one of the surprise teams of the 2014/15 Glo Professional League season, so far. For a team that is tasting top flight action for the first time in over a decade to exert so much authority and lord it over and above relatively ‘older’ clubs in the league speaks volumes. One may say it is still early to praise the club’s exploits in the top flight, but it can be argued that Ifeanyi Uba United have brought about a fresh breath into the Nigerian Professional Football League.

No fewer than eight persons, including a nursing mother and her baby, were few days ago crushed to death in a ghastly motor accident at Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, along the ever busy Otukpo-Enugu highway.

Enugu Rangers’ coach Kelechi Emeteole has surprisingly expressed doubts about his team’s chances against Heartland in today’s Oriental Derby.

Coded Tunes Entertainment has unveiled two new artistes signed to its label, namely, Gaise, an Afro-fusion artiste, and Chinekeboi, an indigenous rapper. Gaise who was formerly signed to Sanctified Records and widely believed to be a gospel artiste has cleared the air on his genre of music. According to him, ‘I’ve always been an Afro-fusion artiste. It’s my style and genre, and I understand that artistes are classified along those lines. The focus of my music is to promote Godly values, and push out wholesome content.’

Despite its infrastructural challenges, Nigeria is among the top three countries in the emerging broadband markets, according to the first Global Connectivity Index, GCI, on West Africa released at the weekend by Huawei Technologies.

SAINT Joseph’s Chosen Church of God, SJCCG, a spiritual church founded on certain basic principles including divine health and divine healing, has decided to focus its attention on lifestyles and harped on the need for Nigerians to eat and drink wisely to stem the growing tide of untimely deaths in our society today.

THE Diocesan Bishop of Lagos, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Ephraim Ademowo has described President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retired) as a leader who will rescue the nation from its present challenges.