Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and one-time governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has appealed to politicians to support Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s SMART agenda so as to create entrepreneurs and industrialists instead of followers.

Brothers and sisters, I am starting this week’s Joyful Homes in a joyous mood and I need you to condition yourself to be part of this.

The attention of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organization has been drawn to a publication in Sunday Vanguard of August 7, 2016 by one Christian Oronsaye purporting to make a choice of excellence on who to vote in the forth-coming Edo State governorship election. Ordinarily, we would not have responded to the publication but for the need to set the records straight and obviate the tendency for the publication to mis-inform or attempt to mislead the good people of Edo who are seeking better governance and have seen in Pastor Ize-Iyamu the hope for a new state that will deliver socio-economic, healthcare, employment, skill acquisitions and other deliverables of democracy.

In many instances, some newspaper columnists tend to cry out more than professional politicians whose utterances easily unveil their political camps. But when a newspaper columnist continuously takes the responsibility to feed readers with biased write-ups, like Tonnie Iredia does often on Edo 2016 governorship election, one is pushed to call him to order.

Those attacking the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State in the 2015 polls, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, have been cautioned by Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, a lawyer, who says they should stop casting aspersion on the reputation of Emerhor.

OVER 5,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Oredo, Egor, Etsako West and East Local Government Areas of Edo State, yesterday, dumped their parties for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The innovative voyage embarked upon by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Oworonsoki bus stop has no doubt mitigated the traffic snarl and incidental crime of yore that transcends Lagos Island to the mainland. Curiously too, it has raised the question regarding whether a single innovation can give satisfactory answers to a myriad of multi-faceted traffic and incidental problems confronting Lagosians?

Hon. Olusola Nehemiah Ebiseni, a lawyer a former, three-time, Commissioner in Ondo State and a delegate at the 2014 National Confab, speaks on his aspiration to governor Ondo under the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State under the aegis of the “PDP for Progress” have urged delegates to vote for Jimi Agbaje as the national chairman of the party at the forthcoming National Convention holding in Rivers State.

The latest edition of Nigeria’s Men’s Olympic Football Tournament ‘Dream Team’ saw off Denmark in a straightforward 2-0 quarter-final victory at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador. John Obi Mikel and Aminu Umar got the goals, either side of half-time, to send their side to Sao Paulo for a meeting with Germany on Wednesday.

Team Nigeria captain John Obi Mikel and Aminu Umar were on the score sheet as the Nigerian U-23 put their troubles behind to beat Denmark 2-0 and qualify for the Semi-finals with a potential match against Germany.

The Abuja-Kaduna train service recorded N5 million income within the first two weeks of operation, Mr Fidet Ikhiria, Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has said.

Nigeria’s U-23 team, on Saturday defeated Denmark 2-0, to qualify for the semi-final of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has endorsed the use of barcode in Nigerian movies and music as a measure to protect intellectual properties from undue exploitation.

United States Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the ranking Democratic Party member on the Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Saturday led a congressional delegation on a three-day visit to Lagos.