Even before she left the shores of Nigeria for Brazil, Mariam Usman knew that winning a medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics would be a tough call. She would not pretend to be a magician nor claim perfection where there is none. Usman believes one can only reap where one sows.

74-year General Overseer of the Redeemed Christen Church of God (RCCG) Pastor E A Adeboye has said that he meant every-word he said about marriage during the recently concluded RCCG 64th annual convention.

The Federal Government, yesterday, announced the approval of four of the five Aje Oil wells, discovered in Lagos State and disclosed plans to commence disbursement of 13 per cent derivation fund to the state as an oil producing entity.

ABUJA — The Federal Government has warned fraudsters using the name of President Muhammadu Buhari and those of his family members and senior government officials to solicit favour or contracts from ministries and other government establishments to desist from the criminal act or face the wrath of the law.

EBONYI state government yesterday disclosed that it was targeting the production of one million metric tons of rice annually even as it has put in place incentives to make farmers meet the expectations of government in the area of food production.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the present administration in its bid to strengthening the nation’s economy.

Like one writhing from the pangs of judicial guilt, in a valedictory about a decade ago marking his retirement from judicial service, Justice Abdullahi Mustapha –one of a few infamous Federal High Court judges who presided over the treason trial of the late MKO Abiola- said that the winner of Nigeria’s freest and fairest election would not have died in detention if he had not refused the conditional bail his court had granted him. In fact, besides being proverbially an ‘after-death-the-doctor’ kind of self-praise, this unsolicited piece of irrelevant obiter dictum, merely reversed the aged-old saying that ‘the witch cried at night and the baby died at dawn’.

ABUJA—FORMER Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan have made the list of eminent personalities of Save Democracy Group Africa, SDGA, that would form a club of past Presidents in Africa to ensure there was respect for constitutionally stipulated tenure of office for political leadership in Africa.

LAGOS—Crude oil prices, yesterday, moderated its upward trend, declining in morning trades before slightly regaining lost ground at close of market, signaling that stability is not yet in place.

ENUGU—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned MEND and it’s agents to leave Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB alone and face their business with the Federal Government. This was contained in a statement signed by IPOB’s Publicity and Media Aide, Comrade Emma Powerful yesterday.

After twenty-two years of the criminal cancellation of the June 12, 1993, presidential election ostensibly won by the business mogul, the late Chief M. K. O. Abiola, Onyeisi Chiemeke, a lawyer and former student activist who was part of the de-annulment movement has come out with a book detailing the intrigues and other negative activities that characterized the struggle and made it impossible for the realization of the mandate.

This is the most colourful phenomenon I have ever witnessed in my life!” Exclaimed Bamidele, a Lagos based banker, who had shared the fun filled weekend with his family. Despite the rains that tried to take the joy of the guests, the much-anticipated Festival of India lived up to its billings as it could be described as a huge success. Though the festival has come and gone , but the memories will continue to linger as the festival has come to stay.

ABUJA—The Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday declined to hear the fundamental rights enforcement suit erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin, lodge before it. Jibrin had approached the court, begging it to shield him from being arrested or interrogated over his allegation that speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, and three other lawmakers, surreptitiously padded the 2016 budget with about N40 billion.

ABUJA—The Federal Government is set to begin the full implementation of the National Counter Terrorism Strategy, NACTEST, as part of measures to enhance its onslaught on insurgency. Deputy Director, Counter Terrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser ONSA, Ahmad Mohammed Gusau, disclosed this at a stakeholders workshop on the implementation of NACTEST in Abuja yesterday.

ABUJA— The Federal Government has ordered massive importation of kerosene to tackle the scarcity of the product currently witnessed across the country.