The disqualification of Democratic Republic of Congo team V Club overshadowed the CAF Champions League groups draw in Cairo Tuesday.

A subsidiary of Italian oil producer Eni has declared a force majeure following an attack on a key gas pipeline in southern Nigeria, the company said Tuesday.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Wednesday, said the long awaited regeneration of Oshodi into a world class Central Business District (CBD) will commence next week with the construction of Transport Interchange which will feature the consolidation of all 13 city and interstate parks in Oshodi into 3 multi-story bus terminals.

Earlier this month the Senate approved a proposal to introduce a bill that will make kidnapping punishable by death. Many commentators have welcomed the decision arguing that the death penalty will deter the increasing number of kidnappings in the country. They are wrong.

Trial of the embattled National Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh before the Federal High Court in Abuja was stalled, on Tuesday, as the defendant was said to have been admitted at the National Hospital.

The federal government says it spends N165 billion on salaries and allowances every month.

The national U-20 team, the Flying Eagles are back in the country after their gallant performance against Young Swallows of Burundi in Bujumbura but team coach, Emmanuel Amuneke has said it is not yet uhuru.

As preparations for the football event of Rio Olympics hot up, Coach Samson Siasia has handed down a warning to all the invited foreign –based players for the Suwon Invitational Tournament to report to camp Wednesday or forget about making the team to the Games.

As the Military pushes into the Sambisa Forest enclave of Boko Haram terrorists’, the Nigerian Air Force said on Tuesday that it has intensified efforts to get its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fitted with missile guided weapon systems for combat roles.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Tuesday, stunned several political observers, when he visited and condoled with the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Sen. Shehu Sani, over the death his mother.

Chief Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi of an Ikeja Magistrate Court Tuesday set free 32 out of the 177 suspects charged to court over the March 3, 2016 Mile 12 market riot in Kosofe local government area of Lagos state.

Senator Jerry Gana, who served in the Second Republic Senate, was a professor of Geography, several times minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; a former presidential candidate, a part time preacher, was the founding secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He was one of the arrowheads who mobilised founding fathers of the PDP to stop the party from electing Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as substantive chairman of the country’s leading opposition party.

MR Moshood Salvador, a former member of the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003, recently emerged as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State. Shortly after being sworn-in, Salvador had a brief interaction with newsmen, where he shared his mission and vision for Lagos PDP.

Senator Samuel Anyanwu represents Imo East Senatorial District in the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Anyanwu is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions.

To help scale their solutions to increase affordable internet access in communities in underserved markets, Technology giant, Microsoft yesterday disclosed that it has awarded seed grants and resources to 12 small businesses in 11 countries including Nigeria, Botswana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda.
Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative aims to democratize access to the Internet through grants, commercial partnerships, connecting new leaders and community engagement.