Enugu State government, yesterday, lampooned the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses, ICPC, over its report alleging the state misapplied the Federal Government bail-out fund, set aside to liquidate arrears of salaries and pensions owed public servants in the state.

Earl Osaro Onaiwu, popularly known as the ‘Solution’, is one of the governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. He is currently the Director General of the PDP Governors Forum. In this interview, he expresses his desire to succeed Governor Adams Oshiomhole just as he declares as untrue the claim that only Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu can face the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

If there is anything that is not lacking in the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, it is drama.

After being detained for about four days, a former Finance Minister, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, has reportedly made a substantial refund of the cash said to have been given to her by the Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA.

Top rated musician, D’banj has opened up in a chat with South African radio host, Anele Mdoda, that his mother’s been pressuring him to get married.

From Agatu to Akure to Aba the story is the same. For that matter from Abia to Zamfara states and the Federal Capital Territory, the Federal government and its security agencies have apparently created two classes of Nigerians – herdsmen and the rest of us. Notice, please that I did not add Fulani because they are not all Fulani or even all Nigerians. The reason is simple, I was once a cattle owner and several of the nomads engaged by the later supervisor, Yinusa Idi, who lived in a settlement near Gezawa in Kano State, were Fulani or Nigeriens.

MINISTER of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has commissioned an underground pipeline from Esacravos to Warri and Port Harcourt refineries expected to deliver crude directly to the refineries rather than the use of marine vessels which has been in use for years.

RAJI Fashola, SAN, responds to these Frequently Asked Questions about the Nigerian Power Sector. Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, explains that there is a price to pay to have improved electricity supply.

Among high profile cases dominating the Nigerian public space today is the 10-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against a former Chief of the Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, says the 10,000 officers to be recruited into the police will be trained with stun gun and modern policing methods encompassing technology.

As the Federal Government continues to put measures in place to stimulate economic growth and development through diversification into non-oil export sectors, there are divergent views from economists about the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to strike a currency swap deal with China. While many financial experts said that the deal will strengthen the bilateral trade relations between Nigeria and China as the second largest economy in the world, others advised Nigerian government to tread with caution, in order to curtail influx of fake and substandard goods into the local markets. A former President, National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, Mr. Ade Martins-Odigie, who is also a financial expert, spoke with Sunday Vanguard on what Nigeria stands to benefit if the currency swap deal is successfully done.

Many people may not have understood why Governor Adams Oshiomhole is not backing the governorship aspiration of his deputy, Dr Pius Odubu. Apart from Odubu, the APC is parading aspirants like a former Minister of Works, Engr.Chris Ogienwonyi; a former military tactician, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (retd); a former governor of the state, Prof. Osarhiemien Osunbor; the Chairman of the Edo State Economic Team, Mr Godwin Obaseki; Mr Kenneth Imasuagbon; Comrade Peter Esele; Prof. Frederick Ebegue Amadasun; and the only woman in the race, Mrs Tina Agbarha. The state Commissioner for Works, Osarodion Ogie, was initially in the race but shelved the ambition after his boss informed him of his desire to support Obaseki.

Remember Alhaji Bashir Tofa?
He was the man who contested the June 12, 1993 presidential election against the late Chief MKO Abiola. Abiola was generally believed to have won that historic election which was unfortunately annulled by the military. In this interview, Tofa wonders whether anybody said Abiola won the election and he lost.

Benue State is counting its losses in the aftermath of the bloody crisis that raged like wild fire in the last two months between suspected Fulani herdsmen and local farmers. Though some parts of the state may be enjoying truce amid rising tension owing to the outcry that trailed the dastardly killings in Agatu, Logo, Guma, Tarka, Buruku Kwande and Katsina/Ala local government areas, the signs of the crisis still dot the landscape.

A prominent Lagos pastor made it compulsory for all members of his church to contribute a minimum of N10,000 each to his church’s multi-billion naira building project. Surely it must have occurred to him that some of his members do not have that kind of money. But he would not be deterred. He was determined that his mustard-seed church must become a tree.