Art lovers, especially music enthusiasts will be treated to the best of quality music and performances as Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) 2015 Festival opens with the celebration of its 32 years success.

VICE Chancellor of the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Professor, Victor Peretomode, and two other professors, yesterday, said the present challenges confronting Nigeria should provoke a flurry of researches that would improve the living standard of Nigerians.

DEPUTY Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Friday Osanebi, has declared that the present economic challenges faced by the country should not stop political office holders from empowering the citizens.

Dissatisfied with last Monday’s judgement of Benue State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the last general elections, Mr. Terhemen Tarzoor, has decided to challenge the verdict at the appellate court.

EXPECTATIONS were high on Tuesday, September 22, as the much awaited All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship primaries took the centre stage in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital. Considering the undercurrents that characterized the build up to the primaries, Bayelsans were indeed expecting a keenly contested affair.

ALHAJI Yerima Shettima, the president of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, in this chat picked holes in insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari is out to northernise Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu has warned contractors handling road and other projects in the state not to offer money to any body who approached them claiming to be working for him.

AS the value of Naira continues to grow weak, Nigerians have been advised to cultivate the habit of wealth creation and management to forestall possible draught that may befall the nation if savings culture is ignored.

Following the approval of N5.375 billion as bailout funds to Plateau State by the Federal Government, Governor Simon Lalong has approved the constitution of an implementation committee for the funds.

DELTA State Deputy Governor, Mr Kingsley Otuaro, has commiserated with the Itsekiri nation on the demise of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II.
Otuaro, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mrs Doris Aboh, said the death of the Olu was a big loss, not only to Nigeria, but also to the entire black race, judging from his antecedent as a first class traditional ruler and his input to the unity of the nation.

BENIN—POLICE operatives from Zone 5 Headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, have arrested three persons, for defrauding unsuspecting members of the public under the guise of offering them employment in the oil and gas industry.

Sequel to the ruling by the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, the management of the Nigeria National League (NNL) has directed that the outstanding matches in the 2014/15 season be played simultaneously this Sunday 27th September, 2015.

WORKERS and pensioners in Enugu State who are being owed several months of pensions and gratuity are expected to heave a sigh of relief any moment from now.

The Nigerian Democratic Movement (NDM), and Nigerian Women Activists (NWA) have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immortalize late Comrade Chima Ubani, who died fighting for the survival and sustenance of democracy in Nigeria.

Stakeholders in the steel industry have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the sale of the nation’s automobile industries by the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE).