Celine Dion’s husband Rene Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and long managed her career, died Thursday aged 73, after a struggle with cancer.

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was Thursday (January 14th) honoured by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He was awarded with the Presidential Award in recognition of his leadership in advancing human rights, social justice and the fight for universal freedom.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has remanded the ‎embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh in prison custody‎.

President Mohammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Bice Marshal Alex Badeh, former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu among others.

SUSPECTED ex-militants, Thursday night, blew up a gas pipeline in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State conveying gas from Escravos –Warri- Lagos – Abuja, property of the Nigeria Gas Company, NGC, in what is believed to be a resumption of fresh hostilities in the Niger Delta region.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has revealed how former President Goodluck Jonathan threatened to cage him after May 29 for throwing his weight behind the candidature of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last general elections.

THE family of a 24 year old motorcycle operator, popularly known as Okada rider, Benjamin Okoli, who was brutally murdered five months ago by a Prison warder in the premises of a court in Akure, has cried out over alleged conspiracy by security operatives in the state, to sweep the matter under the carpet.

Our union is not against the establishment of the model schools, but what we are trying to tell the state government is that they should renovate the existing schools. They should put it in proper position before establishing the model schools. Also, we cannot establish the model school and employ fresh graduates rather government should post experienced teachers who are already in the service to the model schools, because they are already on the field and they know better than fresh teachers recruited by government so far.

The face-off between residents of Ibasa/Ijegun community, Oriade Local Council Development Area, LCDA and the Tank farms in the community has intensified, after the residents vowed to embark on a continued shutdown of the Tank farms’ operations until their demands are met. Meantime, the residents under the aegis of Ibasa/Ijegun Egba Youths Movement alleged that the State government had compromised in its responsibilities, saying “the environmental agencies of the State have failed to yield to their demands to investigate the activities of the tank farms.”

A new dawn in the history of Ile Ife occasioned by the recent appointment of 40 years old Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja 11, as the Ooni of Ife, has continued to resonate with the Ooni set to declare Ife as a tourism zone in furtherance of his promise to foster peace and unity and bring economic prosperity to his people by opening up Ife to the world through tourism.