One person that would be conspicuously missing at today’s national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP whether in Abuja or Port-Harcourt would be Chief Olisa Metuh, the outgoing National Publicity Secretary of the PDP. On Thursday, Metuh’s physical frailty seemed to compound his seeming political pains when he vomited twice in court. Today’s convention, if it holds, would be the first one that Metuh would be missing from or not involved in an active role.

NIGERIA economy shrank in the first quarter of 2016 as oil output fell and the manufacturing, financial and real estate industries declined considerably. This was coming at backdrop of further increase in unemployment rate in the country. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, report on the economy released yesterday said that the gross domestic product, GDP, contracted by -0.36 per cent from a year earlier suggesting that the economy is now entering recession as second quarter is also projected to turn out worse GDP position given some recent developments.

THE newly elected Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Abdullahi Candido yesterday took over the mantle of leadership, with a vow to restore sanity in the council, just as he said that he was ready to sacrifice his life for AMAC to be better.

Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has been cleared by the party’s screening committee to contest for the seat of National Chairman in today’s convention.

More than 9 million people affected by the Boko Haram-related conflict across the Lake Chad Basin – 76 per cent of whom are in Nigeria – are grappling with dire conditions that will worsen if immediate humanitarian needs are not met, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, warned as he concluded a four-day visit to Niger and Nigeria.

WITH worldwide concerns over the crash of its flight MS804 on Thursday, with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board feared killed, there appears to be more reasons why EgyptAir has to worry.

NATIONAL leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, stormed Labour House, the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to beg the leadership of the union,led by Ayuba Wabba, to suspend the ongoing strike it embarked over increment in the fuel pump by the federal government.

Gunmen at the early hours of Friday, stormed the home of Mr. Denen Igbana, the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to Benue State Governor on Security, and shot him dead in the presence of his family.

The Enugu State government has said that it would summon a Town Hall Meeting anytime next month “to tackle the lingering water situation in the state and fashion out the best ways of ensuring improved water supply.”

Louis van Gaal would rather scrape an ugly 1-0 Wembley win over Crystal Palace today than leave the “prestigious temple” empty-handed.