For the second time in the space of 16 months, Nigeria will not be featuring at the biggest soccer tournament in Africa, the Cup of Nations, billed to hold from January 2017 in Gabon. Nigeria’s failure this time comes at a time it appears there are good signals of a resurgence of the Eagles.

The National Agency For The Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has denied allegation of neglecting a 17-year-old Roda Timothy who was reportedly raped by her Lebanese boss, Hussein Ali and being accommodated at the agency.

The South East zone of Magodo Residents Association held its second edition of community sports and fun day amidst pomp and pageantry.

Dog meat suya (barbecue) is a common delicacy among the people of Plateau State. It is eaten with burukutu (a local brew), beer, or any other preferred drink. A formal or informal gathering is incomplete without dog meat suya. However, among all the ethnic groups in the state, only the people of Afizere stand out as those who forbid dog meat.

The confessions of President Muhammadu Buhari during penultimate Thursday’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC about the failed elections under his watch should ordinarily elicit much interest. The president in his speech appeared to be appealing to the grassroots of the party for understanding in the face of the difficult challenges the country has been passing through under a government that promised much change.

Since the defeat by the All Progressive Congress in last year’s general election, members of the Peoples Democratic Party have been forced to an unfamiliar position of being a party in opposition after sixteen years of calling the shots at the federal level. Gradually but steadily, members of the party, especially its leadership have come to accept that the years of dictating the pace of activities in the country are over; at least in the next three years when there would be another elections and the parties will seek the people’s mandate again.

A petrol station is not the place to spend Easter. But that was what happened to millions of Nigerians last week. For many, the entire Easter weekend was devoted to the search of the elusive liquid gold. So it was at Christmas. So it was at New Year. It is beginning to look like the leadership is determined to deny the rest of us the simple pleasures of the festive seasons having taken most other pleasures and conveniences from us. In the midst of all this, the man whose duty it is to ensure we have sufficient fuel for our needs said most undiplomatically that he was not a magician and that our woes would continue a while longer. We had adequate fuel most of last year and the year before. Were his predecessors practicing sorcery or magic?

Samuel Okonta is dead. His death sparked no public anger. Youth corper, on national duty, chased down and murdered. Amaechi, Wike, Dakuku, Asari Dokubo, Patience Jonathan, Ateke Tom, Egberipapa et al are all alive. Living with their families in secure comfort. Glory be to God. They have poured in their condolences and tears but left their rhetoric erect and dangerous. When opponents become cockroaches, murder becomes mere pest control. When demon possess elephants in a fight even trees are not spared. Soldiers have also been mowed down. Port Harcourt is now the garden of bloodletting. Depths that ISIS is yet to contemplate are being plumbed. In this abattoir, vultures take away skulls for keeps.

Generation capacity, made a positive rebound of 3, 128.50MegaWatt on Friday, after all the Discos received zero MW allocation from the system operator, Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN on Thursday.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN on Thursday presided at the historic signing of agreements between the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) and Aba Power Limited to end a three – year dispute that had stalled the completion of a 141 MW Power Project for the area.