African Union (AU) countries have established a new agency that aims at growing the film sector on the continent from a US$5-billion to a $20-billion industry, Regional Secretary-General of Fepaci, West Africa 1, Fidelis Duker, has revealed.

Nine people were killed and 16 wounded in a shooting rampage at a Munich shopping centre.

Struggling with difficulty not to betray his emotion as he sat among family members at a congregation organised in his honour by the Motailatu Church Cherubim and Seraphim Worldwide International headquarters, last Thursday, in Ajah area of Lagos, Tunde Olaniyan, batted his eyelids intermittently, to avoid the tears trickling down his cheeks.

Minister of and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, has been controversial since President Muhammadu Buhari enlisted him in his cabinet, but what happened, Wednesday, last week, took everybody by storm.

Cameroon-born, Nigerian-based Nanou Binga is a model,fashion enthusiast and beauty queen who has been in Nigeria for almost a decade. The sultry graduate of Ogun State University is set to invade the Nigerian fashion with her unique style.

There are accusations and counter accusations of marginalisation of the Edo Central by the All Progressive Congress and Peoples Democratic Party. And in the centre of this are governor Adams Oshiomhole and PDP chieftain, Chief Anenih.

The rejection by Frenchman, Paul LeGuen of an offer to manage the Super Eagles from the Nigeria Football Federation early this week was one of the biggest sports stories that came out of Nigeria. A lot of reactions have trailed what some have described as a show of shame.

The crisis in the Nigerian Senate would be completely nip in the bud as soon as the leadership allows members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, to occupy juicy office, Senator Kabiru Marafa representing Zamfara Central has said.

Nigerians were shocked when news broke out that the national U-23 football team preparing for the Rio Olympics were threatened over lack of fund to cater for their stay in the US where they had gone to train for the Olympics.

Suspected arsonists in the early hours of yesterday razed down the office of the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, in Bori, headquarters of Khana local government area.

Condemnations have continued to trail the delay by the Nigerian authorities in releasing funds to the country’s contigents, billed to participate in the 2016 Rio Olympics, holding in Brazil between August 5-21, 2016.

The global Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Nigeria Plc., Paul Polman in a recently business forum organised by the company and Lagos Business School (LBS) in Lagos, advised business owners, young entrepreneurs and business leaders on how to build sustainable businesses with profit even as they embark on Sustainable Development Goals.

Football loving Nigerians were shocked last Tuesday when the news filtered in that Frenchman Paul Le Guen had turned down the offer to coach three time African champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

The news that closed last week from our hallowed chambers was not very cheering. It had nothing to do with any of the things we pay them such exorbitant sums to debate. It was not about the economy that needs all hands on deck. It was not about youth restiveness and rising crime.

THe chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has inisisted that the forthcoming convention of the party would produce leaders for the party that would be elected and not anointed by some forces.