PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will next week, present the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF & FSP , to the National Assembly. The expected submission of the document to the two arms of government is preparatory to the presentation of the 2016 appropriation bill.

In furtherance of strategies designed to prevent electoral fraud and violence, for a hitch-free governorship election in Bayelsa State, and supplementary election in Kogi State billed to take place today, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has ordered restriction of movements within the boundaries of Bayelsa State with effect from 6.00am to 6.00pm on Saturday, 5th December, 2015.

GOVERNOR Idris Wada of Kogi State and the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, James Faleke, yesterday, lost their bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting today’s supplementary election in the state. They failed to persuade the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare the make-up polls as illegal, unconstitutional and ultra vires the powers of the electoral body.

Everyone wants to read about cancer because cancer is about people and people love to read about other people. A cancer story is news (often bad news) and cancer sells more because of the human interest particularly if a prominent personality is involved, and the bigger the personality, the bigger the story. My experience about reporting cancer has been one of enabling people to understand and appreciate the state of affairs (not necessarily the predicament) of cancer patients in order to raise awareness about some of their challenges (and successes).

The end of the road for a five-man one-chance gang finally came on Monday, November 23, 2015 at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State when operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) attached to the state Police Command arrested two members of the gang who specialised in defrauding innocent people who board cabs in the state. The suspects identified as Joy Duru and Maduka who were members of the catch-in-the-air robbery gang, otherwise known as one chance, were arrested after a female passenger victim who boarded their vehicle raised the alarm when she realised she had been swindled of the sum of N300,000.

They had made the headlines in 1998 under the dictatorial regime of the then Head of State General Sanni Abacha. Students at the University of Ilorin were tired of the deplorable living and learning conditions they were being subjected to. It was a little thing that formed the last straw which broke the camel’s back; the epileptic power supply chose to go off at a time when all students were glued to a Super Eagles’ match.

Nosman’s name might not ring a bell in music circles, but he has started gaining the kind of attention the likes of 2face enjoy.

Beautiful and talented singer and actress, Ashionye Carl Raccah is the brain behind the once-popular “Girl Power;” a movement she spear-headed by organising and headlining the first all-female concert tagged “Girls Power” “Unleashed” and Girl Power Tour.”

Female rapper, Eva, is known to have an eclectic sense of fashion, and she doesn’t conform to the norms when it comes to her music and style.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has justified the many foreign trips of the President, saying that such trips by President Buhari since assuming office are critical to the implementation of his administration key policies of enhancing security, jump-starting the economy, creating jobs and fighting corruption.