The telecommunications industry contributed eight percent to gross domestic product, GDP, and recorded five percent growth in the last three months, despite economic crunch, according to a government report.

Veteran singer Mike Okri who ruled the airwaves in the late 80s with his chart busting debut LP, “Concert Fever”, may have some scores to settle with his brother, Edi Kriz Okri following the latter’s recent outburst that he’s not proud of the singer.

The Muslim Community of Oyo State (MUSCOYS) has condemned in strong terms the proposed plan by Oyo State Government to sell off schools in Oyo State contrary to the provisions of Universal Basic Education Act of 2014 and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999. The group, reacting to the government’s arrangement, it said: “it is a strange phenomenon that Oyo State Government without consultation with all stakeholders unilaterally decided to sell what belongs to all the entire citizenry.”

O people! A month has approached you laden with blessing, mercy and forgiveness; it is a month which Allah regards as the best of all months. Its days, in the sight of Allah, are the best of days; its nights are the best of nights; its hours are the best of hours. It is a month in which you are invited to be the guests of Allah, and you are regarded during it as worthy of enjoying Allah’s Grace. Your breathing in it praises the Almighty, and your sleeping adores Him. Your voluntary acts of worship are accepted, and your pleas are answered.

“We also want to use this occasion to let the entire world know that commercial motorcycling is a business worth investing in because we have noble men and women and highly educated people as stakeholders in this association.” “We are professionals like any other professionals, that is why you always allow us to temporarily take charge of your life when you ask us to take you from one destination to another.”

IN a bid to block revenue leakages at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, the House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration has summoned 1,319 companies to appear before it during a public hearing on operational deficiencies at the agency.

“ My father used to refer to these ideals as the three “Rs.” The base of self-respect is mutual respect. Also, I reasonably believe that self-respect precludes an individual from engaging in disrespectful comments or jokes about others, especially our elders. “With a sense of modesty, I daresay that my background brought about my intervention to stop the Chairman’s from belittling the honourable minister in public glare.

’To me, President Buhari’s administration has not done well at all. People are hungry for goodness sake,” said Timmy this Monday morning in the Apapa-bound bus.

Coach Samson Siasia has attributed his team’s defeat in the opening game of the 4 –Nation Suwon Invitational Tournament in South Korea to fatigue. Siasia said so at the post match press conference following his team’s 0-1 defeat by the host nation at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday called for countries with tight currency exchange rate controls including Venezuela and Nigeria to release $5 billion worth of local ticket sales revenues owed to foreign airlines, or risk losing their services. Two airlines, Lufthansa and LATAM Airlines, said this week they were halting flights to Venezuela, with the German carrier saying the South American country owed it more than $100 million in local ticket sales.

THE absence of Justice Aliya Nganjiwa of a Federal Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, yesterday, stalled the trial of Yunusa Dahiru, who is standing trial on a five-count charge of abduction, sexual exploitation and having unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor, Miss Ese Oruru.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has endorsed the Dream Project for Africa for the organization’s efforts towards bringing development to the African nation.

The Super Eagles have moved up six notches in the latest FIFA rankings released by the world football governing body yesterday.

Two unidentified persons reportedly died, while others sustained injuries yesterday morning in Lagos, when a refuse truck had a head-on collision with another truck.

Yenagoa—Mrs. Seighe Diike, younger sister to the member representing Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State at the National Assembly, Mr. Henry Ofongo, has been kidnapped by armed men suspected to be militants.