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IN a few months, precisely November next year 2016 Governor Adams Oshiomhole will cease to be the occupant of the state house in Benin. Indeed, if the people of Edo state had their way, the distinguished labour leader of the radical mould would rule Edo State till the end of time. Such is the impact he has had on the state and the people. But the constitution only permits two terms of four years each.

THE Bayelsa gubernatorial election has come with memories – good and bad – that could linger for a long while. Being the second to be conducted in the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government, the outcome equally provides a basis to compare democratic tenets as upheld by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) particularly in the Nigerian context.

Oil prices enjoyed rare gains in Asian trade Tuesday, with Brent crude bouncing back from an 11-year low as investors await a closely watched US crude inventory report.

A frontline industrialist in Kogi State, Dr Alex Ayodele John has called on investors around the world to explore the investment opportunities that abound in the state for the mutual benefit of the citizenry and the prospective investor.

Plans by a firm, Firstgate Business Intermediaries Limited (FBIL), few months ago to pocket the sum of N5.2 million from 1,379 applicants in Nigeria through tempting international job offers has been halted through prompt intervention by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC).

The son of an Indian murder victim has confessed to stabbing his father’s killer to death and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for every year since his father was slain, media reported Tuesday.

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children’s agency reported on Tuesday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.

The Federal Government has directed all agencies capturing the biometrics of Nigerians to urgently aggregate their records so as to provide a unique identity for each citizen.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has urged Nigerians who see merit in the war that President Buhari-led administration was waging against corruption, not to be distracted by the ploy of some people he described as “agents of corruption” to discredit the war.

Two vehicles were on Monday involved in a head on collision near the NNPC Mega Station in Central Business District of Abuja.

Founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has warned expelled members of the organization to stop using MASSOB to collect money from politicians.

LAGOS—Seven-year-old boy, Okiki Alabede and three others suffered severe burns after a gas exploded at a restaurant in Ogba, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, damaging property worth millions.

The anti-graft war being prosecuted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, has received the support of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi states’ branch, with its Chairman,Chief Azubike Okafor, urging the president not to relent in the war.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State yesterday said that the two chieftains who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, were propelled by personal interest,dictated by their individual ambitions.