IF only we knew that the entire world was watching us, we would have realised that it is too early to begin to derail the anti-graft war, which we all agreed upon a few months back.

When there are opportunities and different choices to choose from, people and organisations tend to choose the best. What happens when there is no opportunity or probably options available to people or organisations to choose?

I am glad about the recent recruitment into the police but that recruitment should not be limited to the rank and file. There are practicing lawyers that can be engaged, trained and retrained, who will come in, not as rank and file policemen. They could be promoted and empowered to deal with these challenges so that the capacity of the police to use the tools of science in investigation is achieved. This will enhance capacity. I will not draw an arbitrary line; we will only be concerned with crimes that took place within the past few years.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State, Mr. Adewale Abel has called on leaders and supporters of the party to rally behind the party’s candidate in the November governorship poll in order to liberate the state from underdevelopment.

Imo State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Paschal O. Nnadi, says the state judiciary remains committed to partnering with the legislature and other stakeholders in actualizing all viable plans to decongest the prisons in the state.

The Nigerian Army said it has uncovered a massive illegal oil bunkering

Reprieve came the way of 31 Civil Servants caught coming late to work on Monday, as Governor Ayo Fayose, Wednesday, asked them to return to work.

When you think about innovation, do you think about Silicon Valley and technological advances and companies with big research and development budgets? Most people do, but the truth is that even the smallest businesses, from one-chair barbershops to popcorn vendors on the street, are capable of coming up with ideas that capture customers’ imaginations. When that happens, you are on your way to building a great brand.

Hopes for the Federal Government divesting its interest in the nation’s refineries, as being expected were dashed, yesterday, as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said the facilities are not for sale.

The Governor and his party, PDP opened their defense before the tribunal yesterday by calling calling four witnesses who testified at the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

‘It cannot be said often enough, that overall progress remains too slow and too uneven; that too many Africans remain caught in downward spirals of poverty, insecurity and marginalisation; that too few people benefit from the continent’s growth trend and rising geo-strategic importance; that too much of Africa’s enormous resource wealth remains in the hands of narrow elites and, increasingly, foreign investors without being turned into tangible benefits for its people’ Kofi Annan, Chair, Africa Progress Panel (in ‘Foreword’ to “Africa Progress Panel, Jobs Justice and Equity: Seizing opportunities in times of global change, Africa Progress Panel Report, 2012”).

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives yesterday summoned Finance Ministry, Budget Office, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, National Planning Commission, Debt Management Office and Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission to explain why the 2015 Appropriation Act is not being implemented.

ABUJA — The Nigerian Air Force, in its bid to sustain the ongoing air assault against the Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest, has continued to hit vital targets with a view to decimating the capability and resolve of the members of the sect to continue to fight.

Suspended members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, Mr. Tony Nwoye and eight others may be expelled from the party should they fail to appear before the disciplinary committee set up to investigate alleged anti-party activities against them.
Other suspended members included Prince Ossy Ezenwa, Basil Ejidike, Ejike Oguebego, Mrs. Jessy Balonwu, Kenneth Arinze, Hon. Uche Ogbonna, Chuks Okoye and Tony Akachukwu.

Nigeria’s U-17 side, Golden Eaglets Wednesday played a pulsating 1-1 draw against their Korean counterparts at the on-going 2015 Suwon Continental Cup International Youth (U-17) Football Tournament. Lee Sangheon scored the curtain raiser as early as the third minute for the home team but Funsho Bamgboye making his debut for Nigeria on the international stage, brought the game into parity in the 26th minute with a lively volley.