Ado-Ekiti—An Ado-Ekiti customary court, yesterday, dissolved the 26-year marriage between a bricklayer, James Kayode Oguntuase and his wife, Felicia, over sexual starvation and sundry acts.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dismissed insinuations of his plans to defer the formation of a cabinet, as he insisted that his ministerial nominees would be unveiled this month.

BENIN—The Coalition of Civil Societies for the Emancipation of Edo State, CCSE, has called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to take the path of honour and apologise to Nigerians for misleading and misinforming them over his alleged statement that N140 billion had been expended on consultancy services for the 2nd Niger Bridge project and that $700 million was surreptitiously moved from the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, for the same bridge.

FORMER Bayelsa State Governor and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state Chief Timipre Sylva has boasted that the party will take over the reins of government in Bayelsa to replicate the change going on at the federal level in the state.

ABUJA—THE Senate will today begin an inquest into alleged mismanagement of funds appropriated to the power sector from the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to date.

By Samuel Oyadongha All is set for today’s formal declaration of Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson for second term in office. Activities at the headquarters of the “Restoration Campaign Organisation,” the governor’s campaign body, at the Opolo suburb of the state capital were also in top gear as officials said they were ready for the […]

One time Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and member of the Akwa-Ibom State Elders Forum, Senator Anietie Okon in this interview, scores Governor Udom Emmanuel high in terms of performance within his first 100 days.

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, set up by the Federal Government, Prof. Itse Sagay, has said that there will be no sacred cows in the anti-graft war.

The first one hundred days have just passed since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office to run the affairs of the country for the next four years. Even though Presidency and All Progressives Congress (APC) sources have played down the first hundred days as a period to take a measure of their new administration, we believe that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step in the right direction to reach the destination on schedule.

About 173 persons living with sickle cell disorder have died in the last three years in Anambra State. President and coordinator of people living with sickle cell disorder in the South East, Aisha Edward stated this, yesterday, while briefing journalists in Awka on the scourge.

PORT HARCOURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, said that his government was working with security agencies to secure the release of kidnapped Vanguard columnist, Donu Kogbara.

THE executive power of the Federal Government vested in the President of Nigeria by section 5 of the Constitution is a frightfully enormous power. In terms of its extent, it embraces all the eight functions set out in my earlier write-up.

A 2011 GALLUP poll showed that 78 percent of Americans consider themselves Christians. Gallup’s 2013 survey revealed that 37 percent of Americans said they attended churches weekly. And in 2014, President Obama told a US Christian breakfast meeting that “The United States is one of the most religious countries in the world – far more religious than most Western developed countries.”

Yenagoa—Former President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson for a second term, citing his excellent track record of regular payment of workers’ salaries, reduction of the state’s huge debt profile and infrastructural development.

UGHELLI—OIL producing Ijaw communities in Delta State under the aegis of Flow Station/Well Head Host Ijaw Communities, yesterday, said it would drag the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa to court if he fails to revisit the composition of the Governing Board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.