AMID increasing glut in the Nigeria’s property market as a result of the economic recession currently facing the country, the Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Construction Limited, a Lagos-based real estate development company, Mr. Sijibomi Ogundele, has revealed that the surge in the number of empty apartments in Ikoyi, Lagos, is due to over pricing.

DELTANS, particularly members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP heaved a sigh of relief when Chief Ighoyota Amori, Sunday declared that the former Governor of the state, Chief James Onanefe Ibori would return home before the end of December this year.

The dollar slipped Monday as traders shift focus from central bank policy to the US presidential election, while the Philippine peso tumbled to a seven-year low on worries over President Rodrigo Duterte’s policies.

The leader of Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has released a new video disputing the military’s claim that he was killed or wounded by Nigerian soldiers.

THERE was a mixed signal, yesterday, in the Niger Delta region, to the resumption of hostilities by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, rejection of the Federal Government’s Niger Delta Summit by the Pan-Niger-Delta Coastal States Consultative Forum, led by Chief Edwin Clark and President Muhammadu Buhari’s seemingly undecided disposition to tangible dialogue/negotiation with stakeholders.

IN what will appear as a test of the enforceability of the new law against Omo oniles in Lagos, property owners and residents in Gloryland Estate, in Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of Alimosho, have sent a petition to the state governor, Akinwumi Ambode, urging him to save them from the nefarious activities of land-grabbers.

Unless Buhari starts seeing himself as the father of the nation rather than a sectional mujahid (“holy” warrior), he would never get it right. He must listen to the wise words of the Senators who are telling him to rejig himself and his government away from the blunders of the past sixteen months

‘’The people of Edo have concerns over Godwin Obaseki, not only because of his questionable business dealings with Oshiomhole but, more importantly, his inability to account successfully for his academic qualifications”, the PDP candidate added.

Following the surrendering of arms and embracing of peace by Avenger militants fighting in the oil producing areas of Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta, the state governor, Rochas Okorocha, has inaugurated the Amnesty Committee, and two others, including the Committee on the Review of the Activities and Infrastructural Development of state owned higher institutions, and the Technical Committee for the take-off of the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko, Imo State. The committee members have also been briefed by the governor on their terms of reference.

As Bayelsa State marks the 20th anniversary of its creation, Governor Seriake Dickson has again called on the people of the state to sink their political differences and work together for the common good of the state.