Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dedicated The African Sun Times’s International Persons of the Year awards to Nigerians. He noted that Nigerians are more deserving of the honour.

AT this time of the year, the practice is to make resolutions on how to move forward in the new year, habit to reinforce and that to discarded. It is like a goal setting process, only that, in this instance the decisions are made under atmospheres of feasting and wining, so they barely last beyond the first or second week of the new year.

African countries have agreed to cooperate in setting limits for use of lead in paints with a view to phasing it out by 2020.

A Ghanaian Christian group is to launch a “holy” social network alternative to Facebook which will be free of “un-Christian” content. 

Leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has appointed a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Aniebonam as Chairman of Biafra Independent National Electoral Commission, B-INEC.

President, Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria and Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, THISDAY Newspapers Group Mr Nduka Obaigbena yesterday wrote the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to further clarify the payments of N670 million compensation to Thisday newspapers and members of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, following Boko Haram attack on Thisday office and confiscation of copies of newspapers and circulation vans of newspaper houses.

MALLAM Audu used to have a kiosk as you crossed from Moremi Hall to Awolowo Hall in Ife in those days. We bought little items from from the wares he displayed close to the health centre. After payment was made, Audu was usually not so quick with giving out the change, so, we would yell at him in our smattering knowledge of the Hausa Language: “Mallam,bani Changi!

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, yesterday, teamed up with other eminent Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a robust defence after the president came under criticisms for insisting that the Federal Government would not release former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), and the founder of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, despite several court directives to that effect.

All Progressives Congress APC, in Osun State has urged the citizens of the state to observe a three-day special fasting and praying period from tomorrow, January 6 to Friday, January 8, 2016.

MOTORISTS have decried the incessant harassment and impounding of their vehicles on major highways across the country by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS).