An Abby Wambach volley seconds before half-time earned USA a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in Vancouver, which sent them through as Group D winners and eliminated their opponents.

A Beninoise cook, yesterday, narrated how he drugged his boss’ family two months ago, in Lekki area of Lagos, to have free access into their inner rooms to steal jewellery and cash.

President Muhammadu Buhari regretted yesterday that those he regarded as ‘strong men’ have destroyed institutions in Nigeria but promised that his administration would do its best to ensure that institutions bequeathed to the country by the British colonial leaders were restored.

A member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, vowed that his party was battle- ready to resist any attempt to unseat the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, since he was duly and constitutionally elected.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, is not finding private jet ownership a worthwhile investment.

“It is terrible. Residents in Atiporomeh, Badagry are really finding it difficult to move in and out of their communities. For a very long time now, especially during the rainy season, the three access roads in and out of our community have become no-go-areas.Infact, we are afraid of a major flood disaster, that’s why we are calling on the state government to come to our aid, especially in the area of building roads and deep drainage channels here.”

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun yesterday reacted to the call for his resignation by the party’s national deputy publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank on the unimpressive outcome of the National Assembly leadership election, saying Frank acted in ignorance.

FOLLOWING criticisms that have continued to trail the politics which played out prior to the emergence of President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, Senator Robert Boroffice said yesterday that National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu never imposed Senator Ahmed Lawan and Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila on the party.

Former governor of Ebonyi State Martin Elechi, yesterday, spent many hours in the hands of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interrogators to clear himself of allegations that he made away with millions of state funds during his eight-year tenure.

MRS. AISHA Buhari, Mrs Osinbajo, Mrs Saraki and Mrs Dogara: when will change come for Nigerian women?The rights of women and girls have, traditionally and historically, been seen as a “soft” issue, particularly in the developing world.

Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso was dressed in a flowing white gown with the red Kwankwansiya cap to match this past Monday evening. His posture was far from a rattle snake about to limp for prey as he sat down to a session with newsmen in his Maitama Abuja residence.

The All Progressives Congress APC in Osun state has appealed to the people of the state to exercise maximum restraint, perseverance and understanding in the face of the financial adversity, which is leading the state into the Holly month of Ramadan.

MR Jude Imagwe, a former Special Assistant to President Jonathan Goodluck Jonathan on Youths, said yesterday that his former boss deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for accepting defeat in the last presidential elections.

Former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, in a two-page interview published at pages 46 and 47 of Vanguard edition of Monday, June 8, 2015, revisited a political past that should have been better forgotten when he spoke on the so-called money quarrel between him and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Anthony Anenih.

WE are a people that forget too soon. Something happens now and is soon after overtaken by other events and forgotten. But while the event that has attracted our attention lasts, it looks like we will never stop talking about it until whatever challenge it represents is overcome. Such is our attitude to kidnapping which continues to thrive in parts of this country in spite of the silence around it.