The NCC Tennis League lived up to its billing and the expectation of tennis followers with the excitement, passion and intensity the ties played in four different centres across the country generated. The eight teams featuring a good spread of all the top tennis players in the country were on parade in Asaba, Onitsha, Abuja and Abeokuta. All centres attracted large crowds.

The Department of Petroleum Department (DPR) might have commenced investigation on erring petroleum products marketers following the subsisting national energy crisis and its effects on Nigerians.

The Rivers State Ministry of Health, RMH, has confirmed 38 people dead across the state as a result of the consumption of the illicit gin also called ogogoro.

Have you ever wondered why givers never lack? They never lack beacuse the hand that gives is always on top. And it is also good to applaud someone even when he is given and he remembers to give gratitude. Givers are men and women with weaknesses; they have shared their individual tears and have secret fears. In this edition, we eulogize a young man impacting the youths with music and projects and some young women affecting lives through their charity foundations.

The Nigerian music industry never sleeps. Day to day, there are new things happening. New songs, new videos and lots more. In the last couple of months, from May till date, here are a number of songs and videos released into the market. Read all about it.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Abia State, Prince Paul Ikonne has appealed to President Mohammadu Buhari to intervene in the infrastructural dilapidation of Aba ancient city.

The Nigerian Senate severally barked when it pondered over issues of national concern such as the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment scam. However, its barks such as that directed at the former interior affairs minister, Abba Moro in almost all cases turned to banter.

THE National Youth Service Corps has called on the security agencies and the Emir of Ilorin to unravel the cause of the death of one of its corps members in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

I begin again, this week, with yet another relay of “My Guilty Dream.” The truth about it all is that no matter how hard I try, I just cannot stop dreaming. I dreamt that I was Head of Government. Please, don’t get me wrong, I did not see myself as Hon. Earnest Sonekan, who was appointed Head of Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, neither did I see myself go through the rigours of electioneering campaigns (with all forms of promises), and of course, I am far from the military circle, so forceful overthrow is equally ruled out, but I just emerged. That is the power of dreams.

Residents of Gaskiya Road, Amukoko, Lagos have condemned the demolition exercise being carried out in the area, saying they were not given prior notice and that the bulldozers exceeded the points measured for demolition. The demolition was part of the ongoing road expansion project of the state government in the area.

The exceptional patience portrayed by the guests that thronged the Unity Hall of Government House, Asaba, Delta State, venue of the command performance of Alex Eyengho’s historical play, “Olu Akengbuwa”, it would seem, was borne out of curiosity than goodwill. Staged as part of activities that marked Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s official handover to Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on May 29, as the new executive governor of Delta State, the play aptly chronicles the rich story of the Warri Kingdom.

With proper investment in tourism, lasting peace and security of life and property in Nigeria, Obudu Cattle Ranch will be a huge source of sustainable wealth to Nigeria. It is a pure act of God that a real performer, Ben Ayade, is now the governor of Cross River. I believe that Cross River and the entire nation stand to reap huge economic benefits if Buhari and Ayade work in concert in Cross River.

It was a harvest of arrests in the last few days across Benue State, following the declaration of renewed onslaught against all forms of crimes and criminality.

With a prospect of about 7000 job opportunities in Ethiopia, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote yesterday opened his 2.5million mtpa cement plant with a charge on African leaders to make environment conducive for the growth of real sector as a sure way of creating jobs to reduce poverty in the continent.

Chinweoke Mbadinuju was elected governor of Anambra state in April 1999. A fall-out between Mbadinuju and his political godfather crippled the machinery of government in the state. He later fell out with another power broker in the state, Chris Uba.