Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya, reminisced on the first seven months of the Sixth Assembly, describing it as “wonderful”.

Congratulations! We are in a New Year; a leap year for that matter. This is the year in which, by God’s grace, you will leap into your breakthrough.

The joining of the 2016 governorship race in Edo State by the Chairman of the Economic Team of the Edo State government, Mr Godwin Obaseki, may have changed the calculations ahead of the poll.

Nigerian football recorded another tragedy on New Year day with the death of former Enyimba International goalkeeper, Chinedu Agwu who was pronounced dead after a protracted illness.

758 stranded foreigners at Calabar seaport evacuated

Ever since the naira entered into a tail-spin, performing woefully against other currencies, there has been an outpouring of concern by disillusioned citizens. Perhaps because of the high prevalence of poison in contemporary politics in the country, all manner of suggestions have been made.

Hon. Oladipupo Olatunde Adebutu represents Ikenne, Sagamu and Remo North Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. He is the Chairman of the House Committee for Rural Development. In this interview, he speaks on rural development and other issues in Nigeria.

The politics of pull-him-down is on display at a trade fair craftily packaged to cast a dent on the good name and image of Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture.

More than 750 foreigners from eight west African countries, stranded in the southeastern Nigerian port of Calabar since Christmas after their ferry broke down, left by road Saturday, a statement said.

The European Union on Saturday raised serious concerns over Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, warning it could have “dangerous consequences” for a region already fraught with sectarian tensions.

English Premier League table after Saturday’s 1500 GMT matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, family in Delta State heaved a sigh of relief when the news of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s victory at the Court of Appeal filtered in from Abuja at about 2pm on December 24, 2015, a day before Christmas.

Laurent Koscielny scored as Arsenal edged Newcastle United 1-0 on Saturday to pull two points clear of Leicester City at the top of the Premier League table.

Barcelona missed the chance to open up a three-point lead at the top of La Liga as they were held 0-0 by local rivals Espanyol in a heated Catalan derby on Saturday.

In the past four weeks, the community of Anibaba, Bugon Filling Station and Water Corporation, Obafemi Awolowo Road, Ikorodu has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.