Two months after the relatively successful general elections, the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP penultimate week, convened a review of the media coverage and performance before and during the elections.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has asked that attention should be shifted from his alleged application for the job of the Cote d’Ivoire national team to the Super Eagles’ next Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Tanzania in September.

SINCE that accursed day of 12 May 2012, when Olaitan Oyerinde, former student activist, trade unionist and principal private secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, was murdered in his living room, death has been a deliriously happy visitor in the camp of Nigeria’s radical humanists. So much so that hardly are the bereaved done wiping away tears of the last funeral than news of another untimely death arrives to set them wailing afresh. The list grows is long: Oyerinde, Festus Iyayi,Baba Omojola, Bamidele Aturu,Oronto Natei Douglas. Did I mention Chima Ubani? And now Emman Ezeazu.

Three secondary school students drowned one after the other in a well while trying to fetch water to perform ablution last weekend in Okerimi-Oro in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has commended the Senate for setting up 18-member committee to review the salaries and allowances of National Assembly members in line with the economic realities of the country.

This is made up of N324.061billion from statutory allocation, N56.04 billion from Value Added Tax, VAT, N6.330 billion as refund by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to Federal Government, as well as the N31.240 billion exchange gain.

The entire idea of fasting is definitely not to starve oneself but to be on a different spiritual plane altogether. It is not a punishment but a spiritual exercise to go closer to God.

Aggrieved Imo monarchs, who dragged Governor Rochas Okorocha and nine others to court have won the first round as an Imo High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Bernadine Ngozi Ukoha, yesterday, restrained the defendants from taking any further action that would impinge on the matter before the court.

The retirement of the Chairman, Oyo State governorship election petition, Justice F. C Obieze yesterday stalled proceedings on the petition filed by a former governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja against the incumbent governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.

Worried by the incessant killings in villages in some local government areas of Plateau North Senatorial zone, traditional rulers in the area have appealed to the Federal Government and other relevant agencies to step up efforts at arresting the trend.

Construction companies in Nigeria, under the aegis of the Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI), have expressed concern over the high indebtedness of the Federal Government, state and local governments to the construction industry running into over N600 billion

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has expressed fears that removal of restrictions imposed on the interbank foreign exchange market will lead to sharp depreciation of the naira.

POLITICIANS opposed to the second term ambition of the incumbent Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, have met in Yenagoa to map out strategies on how to scuttle his return bid.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, re-validated the judgment of the court, restraining any extradition process against the Senator representing Ogun East senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) yesterday released the list of athletes that qualified for the Kaduna leg of the AFN Golden League slated for Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Saturday June 27, 2015.