IF the policy of one couple, four children that General Ibrahim Babangida lamely tried to introduce (and became the first to violate) in the late 1980’s to tackle population explosion were operational in Nigeria back in 1942, Muhammadu Buhari, son of Zulaihat and Adamu, would not have been born.

Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, yesterday, said that ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, did not flout any law by not honouring the recent invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Bayelsa State and former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, has told Bayelsa people and Nigerians generally, to see the New Year as an opportunity to make a new start in their individual and collective quests for development.

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has presented a budget proposal of N74.7 billion to the state House of Assembly for consideration for the 2016 fiscal year.

2015 Doomsday scenario: The Niger Bridge at Onitsha has been bombed. Igbo are being slaughtered in some states of the North. The militants have taken over 10 oil platforms at the last count and Nigeria is now only able to produce about 250,000 barrels of crude per day.

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FEDSARS, Adeniji Adele annex, have arrested a notorious gangster allegedly responsible for killing of several innocent people in Lagos.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on the people of the state to remain united to the cause of developing the state irrespective of ethnic or party differences.

PRECEDENTS in the nation’s political history indicated that the All Peoples Congress, APC, a coalition of some opposition parties will not succeed in its bid to wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Afterall, in the First Republic, the United Parties Grand Alliance, UPGA, failed to dislodge the ruling NPC (Northern Peoples Congress) in the 1964 parliamentary elections.

The Media Office of the Kogi Governor-Elect, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello has debunked the allegation that the Governor-Elect has no PVC, calling it “a spurious and unintelligent misrepresentation”.

OUR African Business Man of the Year, Dr. Mike Adeniyi Ishola Adenuga Jr. (GCON), Chairman, Mike Adenuga Group, can be conveniently described as the triumph of African enterprise. He symbolizes the African enterprising spirit of passion, unalloyed commitment, resilience and hard work.

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A fire outbreak yesterday night razed a student hostel known as Malisia lodge at Gwalameji area, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis.

SINCE his birth in the agrarian community of Jega on January 11, 1957, in the defunct Northern region Prof Atahiru Jega has certainly been a big story.

The National Assembly member representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency of Oyo State, Mr Olatoye Temitope, aka Sugar, has appointed no fewer than 43 people as legislative assistants in his constituency.

When Jim Ovia, as an undergraduate of Business Administration at the Southern University, Louisiana, United States, fell in love with computer technology, little did he know that the love will make him one of the pioneers of modern banking in Nigeria, the pioneering Chief Executive Officer, and now Chairman of Africa’s 6th biggest financial institution.

The Nigerian Airforce, yesterday, confirmed that the two cadets that were accosted by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state in Ketu area of Lagos, Wednesday, while manhandling an artisan, who allegedly broke their car windscreen, were its personnel.