Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (retd), yesterday, described as “untrue,” claims that the recent setting up of the Establishment Committee by the state government to ascertain the true number of civil servants on its payroll was targeted at sacking workers over partisan politics and retrenchment in the civil service.

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Wednesday gave a press conference at the Geneva Press Club to a packed audience of diplomats, policy makers and journalists where he gave details of his post presidential focus and touched on some of the roles his administration played in key areas of the Nigerian and West Africa polity, with particular emphasis on Security and Education.

Fiery Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, on Wednesday, replied the rejoinder by Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who described as malicious his (Falana’s) application to the Special Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over her role in the alleged abuse of the raging $2.1 billion arms scandal.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan during the world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday.

US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday got a peek at the Oval Office he hopes to occupy after November’s election, meeting President Barack Obama for an hour-long discussion.

The new Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Wednesday, declared his stands against corruption and impunity, said he was in a hurry to develop the state.

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Ashley Cole, a long-time England international and standout leftback at Premier League side Chelsea and Arsenal, signed with Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday.

England winger Andros Townsend completed a switch from Tottenham Hotspur to fellow English Premier League outfit Newcastle United on Wednesday.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has identified massive corruption and lack of coordination by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as bane of social intervention programmes by past administrations.

Global leaders have called for greater investment and urgent action towards increasing access to family planning services worldwide, even as an estimated US$9.4 billion is required annually to meet all women’s needs for modern contraception in the developing world. Making the call for more commitment to family planning initiatives Monday at the opening of the 4th International Family Planning Conference, ICFP, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, government, health and development leaders from around the world, unanimously agreed that the way to truly ensure sustenance of family planning programmes is to mobilise funds locally.

At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls.

The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to a comical event organized by the APC as the swearing in ceremony of one Yahaya Bello, a man who did not participate in the overall election, as Kogi state governor.

Social media users have continued to react to the decision of the Supreme Court, which on Wednesday, affirmed the election of Governor Nyesom Wike as the as the valid winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

There appears to be an air of excitement at the Alaba market and other markets across the nation as iFLUX has announced that its lighting products sold in the Nigerian market will come with at least two years warranty cover to ensure that customers looking for energy saving and long lasting products have value for their money.