Many have always asked: why is it difficult or almost impossible for economic principles that work in other places to work or be applicable in Nigeria? Once prices of goods or services go up, they never come down. Market forces hardly apply or are not allowed to apply.

It promises to be an explosive round of high-octane football tomorrow as Enyimba confront Tunisian giants Etoile du Sahel in a CAF Champions League final round first leg match at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt.

Is this the season that Rangers will end their 31-year wait to win the Nigerian Premier League title? Is this the year that the irrepressible fans of the Flying Antelopes will sip the champagne to celebrate their seventh league title, and equal Enyimba’s amazing seven titles under their belt?

It is another season of Mother’s Day. Some have celebrated Mother’s Day; others are celebrating tomorrow and some others in the weeks to come. I say Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers.

Beat Obesity, Beat Diabetes” is a slogan that is fast catching on. A few months ago, a colleague and friend got a diagnosis she wasn’t expecting— type 2 diabetes. She was shocked. The diagnosis was devastating because there were no symptoms. So how come, what happened?

All my friends are always telling me that I should try having sex with a lady who is ten years older than me or more.

El- Rufai left many marks on the FCT. Good and ugly marks. He stamped professionalism and order on the city. And rescued it from the rot and madness that explosive urban drift has inflicted on many Nigerian cities. Or didn’t he?

NO fewer than six children and a mother yesterday lost their lives to a fire disaster which occurred at No 33 Ntia street off Ekpri Nsukara in Uyo , the Akwa-Ibom State capital.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday told Nigerians that he was feeling their pains saying that mutterings about the new administration being a scam was far fetched, saying that the one-chance scammers have been driven out of town.

Dr Jonathan, who was represented by a former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye apologised for Jonathan’s inability to be present for the award.

Following condemnations that trailed the alleged killing of two young men by their in-laws at Umueze-Anam in Anambra state during the burial ceremony of their sister, last January, an uncle to the husband of the deceased woman, Chief Young Ekwualor, has reacted alleging that their in-laws from Umuahia attacked members of their community during the burial.

ABA- For those who witnessed the kidnapping incidents which swept through Aba, Abia State between 2009 and 2010, it was an experience no one would like to relive. Then Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state became a ghost town as a gang of hoodlums led by the dread Obioma Nwankwo a.k.a ‘Osisikankwu’, laid siege on the city.

The Enugu State Police command has arrested the mastermind of the attack that led to the death of three tricycle operators,popularly known as Keke-Napeb, who were gruesomely murdered in uncompleted building site at Ugwuaji axis of Enugu metropolis last month. He is Nonso Chibuke.

Authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, have ordered the immediate closure of the institution, ordering all students to vacate halls of residence before 10am yesterday (Friday).

The thanks-giving service was well attended and so was the entertainment that followed at the Dome in Enugu last Saturday. Anglican Arch Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma was there.