While the Lagos State Government fine-tunes and put finishing touches on its Year 2017 Budget, residents and stakeholders had at a recent consultative forum at Isheri area of Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, appealed that certain demands to improve their well-being be considered as priority in the budget.

The Olympics offered up some truly inspirational moments—and some rather embarrassing ones, too.

The Eid-el-kabir is usually associated with prayers, sacrifice and exchange of gifts mostly from the rich to the less privileged in the society.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has described Governor Adams Oshiomhole as a drowning politician, who is seriously worried that his All Progressive Congress, APC, will lose the governorship elections in his Edo State.

STAKEHOLDERS in the nation’s pension sector have raised alarm over alleged plot by vested interests to destroy the gains of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS and its regulator, National Pension Commission, PenCom, urging workers and pensioners to be wary of the antics of such interests.

APGA has disowned some of its members including the State Publicity Secretary, Chief Paul Okolie for alleged anti- party activities, even as it passed a vote of confidence on its governorship candidate, Earl Osaro Onaiwu.

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos—The Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Major-General Rogers Nicholas, whose outfit is saddled with the responsibility of keeping peace in Plateau State, has decried the high rate of drug abuse and other crimes in the state. According to him, the task force has, in the last six weeks, arrested over 300 persons […]

OLEH—THE Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, Delta State chapter, has said that it is working with stakeholders to get bailout funds to enable it clear backlog of salaries owed council workers in the state.

WARRI—Izon-Okosu-Otu, an umbrella body of select Ijaw elders led by Chief Bare Etolor, does not have the locus to discredit Chief Edwin Clark’s leadership to head the proposed Niger Delta dialogue, says Chief Wellington Bobo, the Oroupawei of Gbaramatu Kingdom.

Troubled by the near obliteration of the third tier of government by the state governments, President Muhammadu Buhari, last night, asked the councils across the country to support the amendmentof the law to free them from the clutches of the governors.