Two and half years after it flagged off the construction of Festival Mall located within the expansive premises of Golden Tulip Hotels, (former Durbar Hotels) in Festac Town, Messrs UACN Development & Property Company, UPDC PLC last week, formally commissioned the imposing N5 billion mall which has redefined shopping in the entire Amuwo-Odofin Council Area.

Platini and FIFA president Sepp Blatter are currently serving 90-day bans from all footballing activities after Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation looking partly into a two million Swiss franc (1.8 million euro; $2 million) payment Blatter authorised to Platini in 2011, reportedly for work done a decade earlier.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola says there would be changes in the policy direction of the Buhari’s administration in the settlement sector.

“Nicki Minaj is a global artist. There is no good reason for her to do business with the corrupt Angolan dictatorship and endorse the ruler’s family company,” said Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to go ahead and conduct a fresh governorship election in Rivers State.

Pro-Biafra protesters on Wednesday, grounded vehicular and commercial activities at the Alaba International Market, Ojo Local Government Area, Lagos, in a mega rally to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Radio Biafra Director and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

BIAFRA Independent Movement [BIM] led by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has accused the new leader of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra [MASSOB], Comrade Uchenna Madu of collecting N500 million from the Federal Government to stop the release-Nnamdi Kanu protest.

Following Wednesday’s ruling of three-man Court of Appeal panel sitting in Abuja, which struck out the appeal filed by Governor Nyesom Wike, seeking a dismissal of the judgment of the Rivers election petition tribunal which sacked him as governor of the state, Wike has instructed his lawyers to appeal the judgement at the Supreme Court.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has responded to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s allegations in his press conference in Lagos purporting that APC was planning to illegally use the Supreme Court to upturn his mandate in favour of the party.

Lawmaker representing Andoni-Opobo-Nkoro Federal Constituency and son of Madam Mabel Dagomie Abiante, Hon. Awaji-Inombek Abiante, has pleaded with the abductors of his mother, kidnapped at Ngo Town, Andoni local government, Rivers State, three weeks ago, to release her unconditionally owing to her deteriorating health condition.

Following last Saturday’s violent clash between the Nigerian Army and members of the Muslim sect, Shiite, in Zaria, Kaduna State, Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani has called President Muhammadu Buhari, on phone, over the clash which led to the death of hundreds of Shii’a members.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday presented some operational vehicles to the Edo State Police Command to boost their operations and logistics in tackling crime, particularly this yuletide.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to take stance measures against any act of indiscipline from Assistant Directors to Directors level.

The three-man Court of Appeal panel sitting in Abuja has struck out the appeal of Nyesom Wike seeking a dismissal of the judgment of the Rivers election petition tribunal which sacked him as governor of the state.

The embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), who has been accused of separate charges running as $2.1bn arms cash laundering, Illegal diversion of N32bn and diversion of N13.6bn and who has revealed that some prominent Nigerians shared in the loot is now facing a 47-count charges before three different courts and judges in Abuja.