Mr Babatope Akinyele, Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency by-election in Lagos, has accepted defeat.

With Christmas hurtling towards us all at an increasing speed, many Nigerians now have their minds filled with thoughts of what they should include on their wish list. The truth is, everyone is in the spirit of giving, but deep down also looking forward to receiving. Unfortunately, while Nigerians may include such items as cooker, blender, hampers, e.t.c on their list, they are far from what they really want to receive this season.

Alhaji Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, says the Federal Government is worried and deeply concerned about allegations of sexual harassment of students in institutions of learning.

The police headquarters in Abuja has announced the arrest of the killers of a Manager with Dangote goup of companies as well as kidnappers of expatriate workers of the company.

Some sports enthusiasts in Saki, Oyo State, on Tuesday appealed to the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to pay allowances of the Super Falcons, who have just won the continental championship.

The Enugu state Police Command, has rescued Miss Chinenye Nwobodo, 18, a kidnapped victim in Ugbawka forest in Nkanu East Local Government Area.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday next week present before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives.

A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Ebonyi, Godshield Kanjal has started planting of over 6,000 economic trees across the state.

A 28-year-old man, Ugochukwu Obah, who allegedly beat his neighbour, Abosede Sunday, to pulp, was on Tuesday granted N50,000 bail by an Ojo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

The Bunza Local Government Council of Kebbi, says it targets 700 children in the area for immunisation against polio which starts next week.

The piece by Louis Odion is emblematic of the new low to which journalism has fallen in Nigeria. This is a piece penned by a senior journalist who, evidently bereft of facts, decided to regale himself with fiction. He used that as a basis to drive a pre-conceived notion of the persona of the individual, Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, on whom he wrote.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has assured the people of the State that his administration is working towards ensuring that the State ranks among the best in Nigeria.

An operative of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Adamu Usman Yusuf,
yesterday told a Lagos Federal High Court how about N4.9 billion was converted into United States dollars by the embattled former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Patrick Akopobolokemi and others who are facing money laundering offence.

On the surface, 2016 looks like a year Nigerians would like to zap from their memories. It is the year in which President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration marked one year in office and this was a milestone that used to attract the equivalent of non-stop genuflecting from corridor trekkers.

KEN SARO-WIWA was the pipe-smoking Ogoni writer and rights activist. He had a small physical carriage. But each time he sneezed, Nigeria the behemoth caught cold. So when asked why the small ‘unarmed’ man from a minority tribe would discomfit a giant, he would fire back aggressively: “What do you mean? What has size got to do with it? Size has little to do with it!”