Last week, Vanguard reported a curious drama during the State House briefing after the meeting of the National Executive Council, between State House Correspondents and the Minister for Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed. It seemed like the Buhari cabinet did not have much to talk about. There is of course much going on. Boko Haram is still killing and pillaging. The Chibok girls are as good as lost. To remove the sheen from that fact, the President was reported a while ago to have pointedly told parents of the girls of Chibok to go home as there’s not much else he could do for them.

African CEOs will be arriving Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for the 4th edition of the annual AFRICA CEO FORUM. To be held from March 21 – 22 2016, participants at the forum will discuss a range of economic issues and current affairs. Based on the event’s central theme for the year, issues such fall of commodities prices and slump of foreign direct investments are expected to hog the limelight in the wake of Africa’s uncertain environment.

When the president was last in the UK he gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph. There was an uproar due to some of his comments in the interview. It seems that his remarks cut too close to some peoples’ sensitivities and perhaps, too honest,way too honest for some. It is not a secret that there are some, I mean, a higher than acceptable level of criminality among Nigerians and these criminals are feted in a big way. In other countries, they lock their criminals and they make an example of them.

Do not envy David Cameron on this Europe issue. And do not begrudge him for celebrating his “victory” at the Brussels office of the European Union last week Friday. Rather, give it to him for his doggedness and resoluteness to ensure he writes himself into the United Kingdom and EU history books. If you ask this young man what his motivation is, he probably would tell you, it is the love he has for his people.

Mr Akinyinka Akinnola is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State.An engineer with experience spanning over 30 years in building services, manufacturing and infrastructural development, Akinnola says all that should matter is for the next Ondo governor to be somebody who is able to get the job done regardless of where he comes from. He bares his mind on why he is the best man to occupy. Alagbaka House. Excerpts:

Former President of the Senate and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Benue South Senatorial District, David Mark, is in a comfortable lead according to available unofficial results.

Efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to extract information from Ojogbame Adegbe the aide-de-camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan, relating to the N10 billion allegedly moved from the Office of the National Security Adviser for political purposes, may have met a brickwall.

In what is becoming increasingly clearer, a cocktail of bad choices, incoherent policies made worse by instability in the markets, as well as a fastidious clinging to antiquated ideas, the fate of the Naira hangs in the balance as it continues its downward slide. This report will show why the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s misplaced belief that hope is best served for dinner, at a time when there may be no one at the table because the prognoses for the Naira and the economy, do not inspire confidence and growth.

Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has asked the Federal Government to prosecute the on-going anti-corruption war “within the ambit of the law, and rule of law must, at all times, be given primacy.”

ENUGU – The Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and former Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Coomassie, has said that agitations for a new Republic of Biafra by Igbo youths were based on “long emotions,” which were “short on logic.”