Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has visited troops of 21 Brigade at Bama, Borno State where he not only hailed their performance against Boko Haram but also gave automatic promotion to two soldiers for gallantry.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described the victory of Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, at the election tribunal as a victory for the people.

Successful business magnate and owner of the popular Premier Lotto aka Baba Ijebu, Sir Kensington Adebutu recently clocked 80 years of age.
He however used the occasion to give back to the society through gift items at an event, which held with pomp and ceremony at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on Friday, 23 October. We used the opportunity to have a brief interview with the octogenarian, where he spoke about his business and other personal issues.

A new Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, and five National Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), last week, scaled the Senate screening.

ABUJA – Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), at the weekend, said the consequences of not putting Nigerian youths on the path of rectitude would be too hard to bear for the country, stressing that he foresees danger ahead.

Sly Stone was a big popstar. He was lead singer of the Sly and the Family Stone; an avant-garde soul and rock band of the sixties and seventies. He went about with a big entourage; lots of hangers-on who hung on his every word. Sly was clearly fed up with these people licking his boots at every turn. So he cracked a deliberately lousy joke. Then he looked round to see their reaction.

Lumen Christi Television is the first African Catholic Television Network with operational base in Lagos Nigeria. It celebrated her first anniversary in May, 2015 having started a year ago. In a chart with Vanguard, the founder, Prince Robert-Joseph Soji Olagunju, spoke on the idea behind establishing a Catholic Broadcasting station, first of its kind in Africa.

From the time President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the name of a former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to the Senate as a ministerial nominee alongside 36 others, it was one issue after another, up till the time his nomination was confirmed by the upper chambre, last Thursday..

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.