Lagos—the management of some recreational centres in Lagos yesterday, said they were fully prepared to entertain picnickers and visitors during this year’s Eid-El-Maulud, Christmas and Boxing Day celebrations.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has released N2 billion to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for the payment of pensioners in the state through the contributory pension scheme.

The constitutional guarantee of democracy at the local governments that is largely disregarded in many states takes breath in Ekiti

ASABA—DELTA State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service said it has captured and repatriated 712 illegal immigrants in the State to their respective countries.

When it comes to finding perfect Christmas gifts, Nigerian celebrities are not left out. Here, some celebs took time out to share what they ‘d like to have for Christmas, and places they hope to be in this yuletide season.

Nigerians have been urged to use Christmas festival to pray for a rebirth of Nigeria’s socio-economic development for the health of the nation.

While the world is still engrossed in the euphoria of the yuletide season, organizers of the prestigious AfricaMagic Viewers Choice Awards,AMVCAs, M-net and Dstv are engrossed in fine-tuning plans to deliver another memorable awards ceremony to usher in 2016.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday that the Nigerian military had met the December deadline to defeat the Boko Haram terrorists.

Ahead of his 50th anniversary today, Comrade Joe Evah, National Coordinator of the Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, fielded questions from Vanguard on the lessons and lesions of life at 50. Evah, a former journalist, spokesman of the Ijaw National Congress, INC also spoke on other issues of national concern.

Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has hinted that the state would require at least N5 billion Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, monthly to augment allocation from the federation account in order to mitigate its current financial problem and boost rapid development.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday, said that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on all those fingered in the electoral violence that marred the conduct of the governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and other parts of the state on December 5 and 6, 2015, regardless of party affiliations.

Nigerians have been urged to work towards ensuring that the country does not disintegrate, despite the current socio-economic and political challenges facing it.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state were yesterday engaged in war of words over the financial position of the state.

After the May 29 take over of government by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country woke up to news of arrests of alleged corrupt former public office holders, some of whom were held over wide range of allegations. The need to tackle corruption cannot be over-emphasised in a country, where public and private institutions have performed abysmally, due to graft.

The immediate-past Senator who represented Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Gbenga Kaka and his successor, Senator Buruji Kashamu, yesterday, traded words over constituency projects in the area.