LISTENING to different speakers on Poju Oyemade inspired ‘Platform’ programme of 1st October, 2015,on television, one is happy to note that there is still hope for the country.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said the current financial crisis that prevented many states from paying workers’ salaries was beyond the crash in the price of crude oil, saying that states needed to revisit the issue of capital expenditure, recurrent expenditure and the context of the federal character principle.

Events in recent weeks have placed Bayelsa State squarely in the public eye as far as the future of the democratic experience in Nigeria is concerned. The new federal ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to be determined to make an unprecedented impact in the state in December when an unseasonable governorship contest will be mounted there.

The Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick has said that he was impressed with the Super Eagles’ performance against Cameroon in Belgium on Sunday.

LAST week, the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, at the Lagos State secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, was full of secondary school students from various colleges across the state. Their faces revealed their excitement, as they aspired for knowledge about the scourge of rape and sexual violence during the sensitisation programme put together by the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre.