The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday confirmed receipt of N50 billion by the Federal Government towards settlement of the N1.04 trillion fines slammed on MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd by the Commission, and its withdrawal of Suit No FHC/1923/2015 – MTN Vs. NCC & HAGF.

READING Lanre Is’haq’s Modibbo mono thematic page recently, got me thinking about my late mother’s philosophical analogy of a mad man, who stumbled on a defecating man and quickly made for his clothes, sprinting away.

The National Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, said on Monday that he would not stay in office beyond the period prescribed by the party’s Constitution.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it had taken delivery of four more cargoes of petroleum products over the weekend to keep the country wet.

FORTY hours after the Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence passed on the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, CPA, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a. Rev. King, the remaining members of his depleted church still revered the bearded, athletic weird cleric as they shrugged off t heir worries to organise a special church service to mark his birthday.

More than a year after its national was kidnapped in Abuja, the Nigerian Capital, the British Government on Monday, raised the alarm over his whereabouts, calling for his release.

Corruption, greed and unpatriotism will make perfect storyline any time, any day in any African narrative, for as long as her leaders remain insensitive to the need for total transformation of the continent. In Chidubem Iweka’s latest offering to literary firmament; a 64-page drama titled, August Inmates,the above issues and more, echo the priority of changing the African narrative by no other than Africans themselves. Published by Krafts Books, Ibadan, Oyo State, August Inmates is an exquisite book that exposes the levels of corruption in an imaginary African country as well as how to deal with the perpetrators of this unholy act.

The massacre of innocent villagers in Agatu Local Government, Benue State, continued unabated, on Monday, in spite of the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that a panel of Investigation into the Fulani attacks on the villagers be established and the announced establishment of an inter-agency security team to forestall further attacks.

The Ebonyi government has announced the second death from Lassa fever in the state.

When Art Twenty One, was opened at the expanded wing of Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, its promoters, said that it was designed to lift the city as an ‘art destination, and ever since then it has attracted a lot of art collectors, promoters and lovers with interesting array of works. Recently, the centre opened its doors to a solo exhibition by Ivorian artist Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, a.k.a Aboudia, entitled Chap Chap, in collaboration with Galerie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan. The exhibition which follows the artist’s continued interest in exploring the urbanity of Abidjan’s cityscape and the culture of the “Nouchi”, a pidgin language that emerged in the Ivory Coast in the early 1980s, opened on February, 13 and will run till end of March, 2016.