The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari on Thursday in Abuja unveiled the Nigeria Rebirth Art Project aimed at making Nigeria great.

Many people have dreamt of immortality. Dmitry Itskov says it will come from a combination of technologies that will transfer his brain and soul into an avatar. A project he decided to devote his fortune to.

Ahead of Saturday’s legislative election rerun in Rivers state, the immediate-past Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Sampson Tamunoiyoriari Parker‎ has dismissed reports that the former governor of the state and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi was once a psychiatric patient under his care.

The south west chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday canvassed that the chairmanship position of the Party should remain in the northern part of the country in order to make the party more appealing to all parts of the Country.

TWO great sons of Nigeria provide the line for today’s piece. The first is the late Prof. Chinua Achebe who said that there is a moral obligation, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless, while the next is Prof. Wole Soyinka who is convinced that the greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The Police in Delta State have arrested one suspected cattle rustler at Emu-Ebendo community, Ndokwa West Local Government Area.

Two things prompted this write-up: just last week, I travelled to Kano to collect my result, certifying me as a graduate of mass communication with 4.07 as my cumulative CGPA and the second best graduating student, secondly, the world happiness report released by the United Nations sustainable Development Solutions Network. The survey ranked countries based on their abilities to provide basic necessities of life for their citizens thereby making them happy .The report published on several news outfits ranked Denmark the “ Happiest Nation, Burundi, the least happy” and Nigeria 103rd least happiest in the World.

Environmental and Human Right Activist, Mrs Annkio Briggs has said that the soldiers who died in Rivers State, yesterday, were not killed in Abonnema town in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

NOMADIC Fulani herdsmen have become a much-resented group across the country. The resentment has intensified as they have clashed with farming communities across the country. In the Middle Belt, however, it is no longer accurate to call the attitude resentment, just as it is no longer accurate to describe what is happening as a clash. It is a sustained massacre, and it has engendered an attitude that is approaching hatred – the kind of hatred that one reserves for someone who threatens one’s very existence.

Popular Nigerian twin singers, P-square, has since been in the news over a possible breakup and change of management.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal urged his players to put the disappointment of Europa League elimination by Liverpool behind them by defeating Manchester City in this weekend’s derby.

CAF Champions League leading scorers ahead of last-32 second legs

The embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, has asked Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to hands-off his trial.

Today’s scheduled resumption of the trial of the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal undoubtedly affirms the present administration’s mantra that no one is above the law. However, the political drama that shadowed the emergence of Saraki as the country’s number three citizen also paints the matter of politics as an issue in the trial.

LAGOS— PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), yesterday, projected that the Nigerian economy could rise through the world rankings to top 10 in 2050 with projected Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of $$6.4 trillion, surpassing Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Saudi Arabia.