Hundreds of tickets were still available Friday less than 24 hours before Floyd Mayweather’s welterweight world title defense, an embarrassing blow to the champion for what he says will be his last fight.

Vanguard columnist, Donu Kogbara who was kidnapped two weeks ago has regained her freedom.

Although, she has since regained her freedom, after spending one year behind bars, it will, perhaps, take Miss Jennifer Ngozi Mberekpe a long time to overcome the traumatic experience she had while in prison.

Many young people are very idealistic about marriage; at least, that is the impression I get when I interact with them. At a youth gathering sometime ago, a young man told me this story and asked for advice. His friend and the fiancée had agreed that there will be no premarital sex, mainly on the insistence of the lady.

The Northern Governors’ Forum, NGF, is holding its maiden meeting in Kaduna since the governors were sworn in last May.

A massive construction crane crashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque in stormy weather on Friday, killing at least 107 people and injuring 238, Saudi authorities said, days before the annual hajj pilgrimage.
The civil defence agency said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a “crane fell at the Grand Mosque,” one of Islam’s most revered sites.

Kenya-born Victoria Kimani stormed the Nigerian music scene to make a difference. Couple of years down the line, it seems the curvaceous beauty has found a nest for herself and she is set to blossom and compete with the very best in the industry. Signed to Chocolate City label, the gorgeous diva talked to us about her life:

TEN years after, the anger arising from the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment of former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamie-yeseigha by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration is still reverberating even though Alamieyeseigha claims he has forgiven Obasanjo.

Serena calendar Slam bid foiled in Vinci shocker

THE Communities Development Committee, CDC, of Oil and Gas Producing Communities in Niger –Delta, has reprimanded members of the dissolved board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for dragging President Muhammadu Buhari to court over the dissolution of the board.

Nobody would have imagined at tempting to wrest the governance baton of the Creek Haven, the seal from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and, by extension, the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. But as it is said in ecclesiastical narratives, all that seems to be the old things which have passed away, and all things have become new. There is a new political dawn and reality.

THE 3-man Delta State Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Asaba the State capital, Thursday got another shocker when one of the petitioner’s witnesses, Mr Turner Ogboru, younger brother of Chief Great Ogboru disagreed with their counsel on a point of law.

The only clue one can gather at the moment even in the face of non-application of the federal character principle in the appointments made by the president, is he has distanced himself a little bit from the previous public officials and political juggernauts and godfathers, who have been in all political parties since 1990, whether they belong to the peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other party or the military as the situation may be.

Buhari has come on a change agenda and he is not expected to behave in a manner in which you will see things as business as usual. He has to change things and he has to fulfill his promise of change to people and he is trying to understand the place and put fundamental changes in place because if you put a very heavy structure on a faulty infrastructure, the building will collapse.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, last Monday reportedly ordered the immediate settlement of arrears of salaries of street sweepers who had protested non-payment of their wages for several months.