Leonardo DiCaprio won his long-awaited first Oscar for revenge epic “The Revenant” Sunday but journalism drama “Spotlight” took best picture in a surprising end to Hollywood’s glittering awards season.

“What type of attention is that? Insulting a man before his subordinates?” Mrs Bulama was getting angry.

Author and TV host, Reno Omokri, was in Mauritius where he went SCUBA diving in the Indian Ocean. The US based writer had visited Nigeria to commission an orphanage he built in memory of his late mother, Helen Bemigho and thereafter travelled to Mauritius for a well deserved holiday.

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded the immediate past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro in Prison custody over his alleged complicity in a N676million job scam.

APART from the issue of oil subsidy, no other subject has enraged and infuriated Nigerians more than the issue of the jumbo salaries and allowances of the members of the National Assembly.

KADUNA — The Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, KADCCIMA, yesterday, said investors in various sectors of the economy were weighing the negative impact of the scarcity of foreign exchange on their businesses, noting that within six months, members of the Organised Private Sector lost about N1.46 trillion.

After being detained for almost a week, former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, will be arraigned today before Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court Abuja, to answer to charges of abuse of procurement process and diversion of public funds preferred against him and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

ELEVEN Senate and House of Representatives candidates under the Ejike Oguebego-led executive of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, have called on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, to obey the January 29 Supreme Court judgment and issue them Certificates of Return without further delay.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has warned those who are claiming to be representing the group, including the members of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and its youth wing to stop such move, that nobody speaks or represents them, unless such a person or persons are designated officers of IPOB worldwide.

The pathetic story of how 14-year-old Ese Oruru, who was in August 2015, allegedly abducted in Opolo, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, by one Yunusa, who hails from Kano, has continued to elicit outrage on social media among Nigerians.

The Federal Government has eliminated 23, 846 ghost workers from its pay roll, thus saving about N2.293 billion monthly in what should have been paid out to non-existent workers or those who draw multiple salaries from government coffers.

After years of untold hardship faced by residents, business owners, government agencies and commuters around the Oshodi – Apapa Expressway axis due to the traffic jams occasioned by the trailers/trucks coming in from all parts of the country, there is a temporary relief currently in place.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, said the pace at which President Muhamadu Buhari’s administration is moving, its plan to achieve developmental goals cannot be done in just four years.

Lagos—The 2016 all Computer Based Test, CBT, version of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) would not hold at the University of Lagos centre until March 7.

ORGANISED Labour weekend in Kaduna threw its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari plans for a national dialogue on the state of the economy, urging the President to ensure an all inclusive dialogue that must involved the working people as represented by labour.