DESPITE disappointing nay sayers with a surprisingly seamless ministerial screening from inception, expectations that the last phase of the exercise would be an anti-climax were still palpable.

A former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, has called on his supporters and party faithful to throw their weight behind Timipre Sylva, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the December 5 governorship election.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday took a swipe at the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Lai Mohammed, alleging that with his quarrelsome nature, he was not fit to hold any public office.

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dancehall king, Patoranking, crooner Dammy Krane comedian, Elenu, DJ Lambo among others are the top entertainers who thrilled fans as Malta Guinness, yesterday launched a new campaign tagged: ‘You vs…’ to celebrate the everyday Nigerian who takes on typical everyday challenges with a smile and a spring in their feet.

Chelsea loanee Victor Moses has been left out of a 2018 World Cup eliminator against Swaziland after he skipped Nigeria’s recent friendlies in Belgium, officials have disclosed.

Like in the game of football where the winner of any match burst into frenzy of jubilation and the loser into painful mood, the recent announcement of the headship of the Standing Committees in the House of Representatives by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has, once again, shown that the relative peace witnessed after the election of presiding officers and selection of principal officers by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has remained the peace of the grave yard.

Last week, workers in Enugu State, under the aegis of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, formally kicked against the alleged decision of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to procure Toyota Prado Sport Utility Vehicles, worth N11.5m, for each of the commissioners and House of Assembly members in the state.

All Progressives Congress, APC, Scandinavia chapter, has honored Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawala Abiola popularly known as MKO with the posthumous award as a Democracy Champion.

President Muhammadu Buhari was absent at the All Progressives Congress (APC) grand rally in Lokoja, Kogi State to drum support for the candidature of Prince Abubakar Audu in the November 21 governorship election.

The Komunio community, in Okpella, Edo State, took a step further, at the weekend, to prove that the land on which BUA Cement Group is sited belongs to it and not Iddo or any other village in Okpella as being claimed in certain quarters.

It is not in doubt that Nigeria is in crucial economic times. Any keen observer must therefore be concerned about the prospects of Lagos State which controls the largest share of the Nigerian economy. Lagos is, in many ways, the nation’s gateway to global business.

Indigenes of Delta State have been called upon to support the efforts of the incumbent governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, in turning around the economy of Delta State for greater prosperity.

At its inauguration as a free nation, Nigeria established itself as a federal democratic republic. The founding fathers of this nation thought hard, and long about the options open to a multi-ethnic society such as Nigeria, and knew that it could not, like the Kingdom of Swaziland, be a constitutional monarchy, run on a unitarist model. In 1960, the federation of Nigeria secured political independence as a free nation under the British Commonwealth.

The remains of His Royal Highness, Alhaji Haliru Dantoro, Kitoro lll, Mai Borgu of Borgu Kingdom of Niger State is to be laid to rest in New Bussa, Niger state today.