IJAW Youth Council, IYC, complained, yesterday, that President Muhammadu Buhari administration has ordered a stoppage to on-going constructions for the take-off of the Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Delta State, which groundbreaking was performed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in May.

There was confusion recently on Twitter as fans argue, analyse both late Jackson and Chris Brown’s style in other to explain who has done things better on stage.

AS the Muhammadu Buhari presidency clocks 100 days in office, it is interesting to note that the actions of the government which is yet to appoint Ministers and other top officials of government is no longer the focus of negative criticism by Nigerians who think and expect that things should be done differently from the way President Buhari have chosen.

Torrential rainfall has destroyed no fewer than 7,000 houses and over 2,000 farmlands in Jigawa State, rendering thousands of families homeless.

WHEN in a recent Daily Trust (29 July, 2015) opinion Tunde Asaju wrote: “How did a President make and reverse himself so many times on issues of national, and sometimes even global, importance within two months in office”, he forgot that Mr. President was living true to the concept of that very change that swept him to power. Mr. Asaju also forgot to note that the apostle of any gospel is always at liberty to interpret and even re-interpret the notion of his gospel. This is simply what Mr. President is doing.

The significance of the outing of former President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday would not be lost on anyone. For the first time since he lost the presidential election, Dr. Jonathan appeared in a public ceremony and came out wholly to endorse his protégée, Governor Serikae Dickson for a second term.

Managing Director/Chief Executive, Fidelity Bank PLC, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo has identified the recent foreign exchange restrictions placed on importation of 41 items as one of the many non-oil investment opportunities in the economy. 

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Prince Chibudom Nwuche has called on politicians in Rivers State to eschew the negative culture of bitterness, blackmail and chicanery in their desperate bid to witch-hunt and to stop Rivers sons and daughters from being elevated to higher national duties.

Mother of four children, Mrs. Adelowo Taiwo, has accused her neighbour, Mrs. Bola Olowolagba, of biting off and swallowing her nipple during a fight which ensued in their compound in Shasha, area of Lagos.

By Emma Una CALABAR—The Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old 400-level student in his office was yesterday suspended by the panel instituted by the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivara Esu. Professor Ndifon, who is the first professor of Law from Cross River State, was briefly arrested […]

PEOPLE lie for many reasons. Some lies are claimed to be benevolent, when they bring no harm in particular, to the hearer. For example, when you asked to go and tell your eldest brother, that his beloved father is dead, you look at him in the face and tell him to come home urgently.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, disclosed yesterday that Kaduna Refinery will resume the production of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS (petrol), within the next three months.

For Chief Timipre Sylva, what has worked for him is that he is a politician who knows when and how to be at the right place at the right time. This gives him a larger than life status among his teeming followership.

The anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari got a major boost, yesterday, as organized labour staged a nationwide protest in support of the crusade, calling for death penalty for corrupt persons. The labour activists also threatened to invade any court where the judge grants perpetual injunction to frustrate anti-graft agencies from prosecuting corrupt persons.

The Federal government has dispatched a high-powered technical team to the University of Lagos site, where a 300 level Accounting student, Oluchi Anekwe was electrocuted.