Organisers of the PwC Chess4Change Grand Slam Tournament which commenced in Lagos on Tuesday, 19th April 2016 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos has been roundly commended for sustaining the tempo of the two-year old competition.

IN a twinkle of an eye, it’s now over two years since the disappearance of 219 students of the Federal Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Bornu State. Not a few imagined the girls who were reportedly abducted by Islamic sect Boko Haram would be a year older in the sect’s den, not to mention two.

Theophilus Afelokhai was the hero Wednesday’s night CAF Champions League match played in Sousse, Tunisia as he stopped four penalties to earn Enyimba a befitting 7-6 aggregate win over hosts, Etoile du Sahel and cruised to the lucrative group stage of the competition.

Barcelona bounced back from their worst run of La Liga defeats for 13 years in emphatic fashion as Luis Suarez scored four in an 8-0 thrashing of Deportivo la Coruna on Wednesday.

Enyimba secured a dramatic 4-3 penalty-shootout victory over Tunisian opponents, Etoile Sportive du Sahel at CAF Champions League. The game ending 7-6 on aggregate.

THE Ambassador to the United Nations Organization on Millennium Development Goals, Ambassador Oghenekaro Ekewenu has been appointed by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state as Executive Assistant on Marine Development.

DOLAPO Opeyemi Badmos, is a Superintendent of Police (SP) and the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Lagos State Police Command, since she joined the Force on 15 August, 2002, as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (Course 21 batch) and trained at Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, the graduate of Accounting who also holds a post-graduate degree in Public Administration has served in various capacity.

Arsenal’s quivering tightrope walk towards their Premier League top-four objective resumes this Thursday when West Bromwich Albion visit the Emirates Stadium in a re-arranged fixture.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will appear on front of the $20 bill, replacing former President Andrew Jackson and becoming the first woman featured on United States paper currency in modern times, a Treasury official said in deciding to leave Alexander Hamilton on the $10 note.

EVER wondered why almost every young man in town is in love with Adekunle Gold’s new hit Orente? As confessed by a few, the ‘very comfortable’ personality of the figurative woman created in the song very much appeal to them. Orente, as portrayed in the video, is a good woman, who is content with her man, even though he is very low on cash- or even flat broke.

The embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged N400million fraud, Wednesday, insisted that his trial was politically motivated.

Mr. Micheal Wetkas, who is the star witness in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja that bulk of evidence linking the defendant to money laundering, was destroyed by fire.

Lab mice that spent just two weeks in orbit showed early signs of liver damage upon returning to Earth, raising concern about what long-duration spaceflight might do to humans, researchers said Wednesday.

Senate President Dr. Bukola Abubakar Saraki has accused the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Mr. Danladi Yakubu Umar of bias and insisted that he cannot get justice under his chairmanship.

Few weeks ago, when Ayodele Dada from the University of Lagos graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average, 5.0 CGPA, little did we know that another Miss Omosalewa Babalola 26, from Ibadan, Oyo State, will repeat the academic feat at Lagos State Polytechnic, with a 4.0 CGPA, the best ever in the institution.