Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries have announced that the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan would start on Thursday. Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, announced on Wednesday that it would be the final day of the lunar month of Sha’aban.

As President Muhammadu Buhari settles down to work, the Presidency has called for the Bank Account Balances of all federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has asked the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to redeem it’s promise of “change.”

DEPUTY Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Lasun Yussuf, yesterday said that there will be no amount of pressure that would make him resign his position as the Deputy Speaker.

Coach Edwin Okon says the Super Falcons have learnt invaluable lessons with their ouster from the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada this came just as the coach of the U.S. Jill Ellis rained praises on the Nigerian side for their efforts.

SOME people may wonder why I will be talking about 2019, when the Eighth National Assembly has just been sworn-in and President Muhammadu Buhari has not even completed thirty days in office. That notwithstanding, smart politicians are already making calculations for 2019 and even 2023.

An Abby Wambach volley seconds before half-time earned USA a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in Vancouver, which sent them through as Group D winners and eliminated their opponents.

A Beninoise cook, yesterday, narrated how he drugged his boss’ family two months ago, in Lekki area of Lagos, to have free access into their inner rooms to steal jewellery and cash.

President Muhammadu Buhari regretted yesterday that those he regarded as ‘strong men’ have destroyed institutions in Nigeria but promised that his administration would do its best to ensure that institutions bequeathed to the country by the British colonial leaders were restored.

A member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, vowed that his party was battle- ready to resist any attempt to unseat the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, since he was duly and constitutionally elected.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, is not finding private jet ownership a worthwhile investment.

“It is terrible. Residents in Atiporomeh, Badagry are really finding it difficult to move in and out of their communities. For a very long time now, especially during the rainy season, the three access roads in and out of our community have become no-go-areas.Infact, we are afraid of a major flood disaster, that’s why we are calling on the state government to come to our aid, especially in the area of building roads and deep drainage channels here.”

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun yesterday reacted to the call for his resignation by the party’s national deputy publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank on the unimpressive outcome of the National Assembly leadership election, saying Frank acted in ignorance.

FOLLOWING criticisms that have continued to trail the politics which played out prior to the emergence of President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Senator Robert Boroffice said yesterday that National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu never imposed Senator Ahmed Lawan and Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila on the party.

Former governor of Ebonyi State Martin Elechi, yesterday, spent many hours in the hands of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interrogators to clear himself of allegations that he made away with millions of state funds during his eight-year tenure.