Pasto: ABEOKUTA—The pastor who allegedly got stuck in a shrine in Ketu community, Ayetoro, in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Prince Wale Fagbire, has denied being struck by idols while destroying their shrines. Pastor Fagbire, who presides over Christ Apostolic Church, Ona-Iye, Ayetoro, said he was instructed not to utter a word after he destroyed the shrines.

Training: ASABA—AS part of his efforts to meaningfully engage the unemployed, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has flagged off the 2016 Skill Training and Entrepreneurship Programme, STEP, Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme, YAGEP, and Graduate Employment Enhancement Programme, GEEP for the training of youths in their areas of interests.

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has described as a joke the demand for an apology by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, over his questioning of the management of the country’s foreign reserves during his tenure at the apex bank.

ONE of the governorship aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Dr Tunji Abayomi, has lashed out at the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for calling on the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun to resign over the choice of Akeredolu.

My response has not changed. We indicated that since the party has followed that perfidious direction, we are leaders of the people. We have defined territory of aspiration which is Ondo State, we know the desire of our people, they want change, this change is desirable because they want a government whose priority would be the welfare of the people.

Echoes of the Kiriji war between Ibadan and Ekiti Parapos, which ended on September 23, 1886 resonated again, last week, as prominent sons and daughters of Yorubaland including traditional rulers gathered at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, to review what led to the war and the lessons the South West geopolitical zone should learn from it.

Faith in Allah Faith is the sense of the heart as truly as sight is the sense of the eye.  Faith enliven the soul, power goodness into our trail and mend life’s challenges with assured triumph. A person without faith is lost for good. But those who possess and live by faith always claim divine […]

THERE was a political earth tremor in the camp of Governor Ayodele Fayose during the week and by the time the dust settled, the fate of two of his trusted allies and disciples in the Ekiti State House of Assembly were hanging in the balance.

SOME stakeholders in Delta, Bayelsa and Cross River states rose, yesterday, in support of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, saying that he was eminently qualified to summon a meeting of Niger Deltans to discuss any issue, as he did, last Saturday, while others still maintained that Amaechi has no such powers.

THE emergence of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has polarised the party both at the state and national levels.