Badagry—To give the ancient town of Badagry a sense of belonging, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday made history, holding the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting for the first time at the VIP Chalet in Badagry. He was accompanied by members of the SEC.

THE House of Representatives yesterday called on the Federal Government to immediately release funds to the Ministry of Sports to facilitate the country’s preparation for 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

After many months of investigating the atrocities allegedly committed by the First Group, a property firm said to be based in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, closed down the Abuja Office of the entity, accusing it of fleecing unsuspecting Nigerians to the tune of $200 billion.

PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu yesterday described as inhuman the concentration of projects meant for Edo North in Iyamho, Etsako West LGA, the hometown of the outgoing governor and said that if elected he would ensure that all sections of Edo North and the state are equally treated.

The long holiday is almost here but sadly, students don’t know it’s holiday as they have to attend summer school, which deprives them of the joys of travelling to fun places or spending the holidays with families and loved ones.

In his well published diatribe against the Igbo people of Nigeria, Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, who is also a son of Igbo, poured invectives on the Igbo nation while making spurious allegations against them.

In its quest to boost MBA education with e-learning, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria has launched an online MBA programme where examinations could be written at designated centres in Lagos, Abuja and Zaria.

Abuja—Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, said yesterday that the Federal Government was determined to improve the health sector by providing adequate funds for it in the 2017 budgetary allocation.

ON Sunday April 3, 2016, a most momentous event took place at the Bourdillion, Ikoyi residence of Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former two time governor of Ogun State. In attendance were the leading lights of current progressive politics in the South West and indeed Nigeria that were instrumental to midwifing an opposition party that electorally took over power from a ruling party since 1999. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, a host of sitting governors and their representatives and other diehard progressives all converged in the house of Osoba with a singular aim: Bring Back Osoba into APC.

ABUJA—The All Progressives Congress, APC, has formally reacted to reports alleging that the Senate was contemplating to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the purported move as ‘a huge joke taken too far.’ This came on a day Chairman, Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, said senators’ meetings held in his house were designed to repair the frosty relationship between the executive and legislature and not to initiate impeachment move against the President.