Founder of the One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji, Friday, said that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will rule Nigeria beyond 2019 in spite of the acrimony in the party.

Pro-Democracy group, the Wailing Wailers, Friday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to honorably resign, saying yesterday’s incident in Sokoto, where placard-carrying residents mainly youths asked the visiting ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to ‘come back’ was an indication that “he (Buhari), has been rejected by the same people who massively voted him in in 2015.”

THE Presidency revealed yesterday that in the last 10 months, the federal government has not paid the salaries and allowances of all former Presidents in the country.

ACADEMICS activities were, yesterday, literally paralysed across universities in the country as the one-week warning strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU entered its second day.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, took a swipe at Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, over the former’s declaration that he (Saraki) was being blackmailed by President Muhammadu Buhari on the proposed $29.9 billion external loan.

AFTER the storm and the seeming calm comes the election. In the first week of December 2016, elections will be conducted to fill executive positions of Urhobo apex body, the Urhobo Progress Union.

Not many Nigerians would easily reconcile themselves to the fact that former President Goodluck Jonathan will be 59, on November 20.

A human rights group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has called on the United Nations to quickly intervene on the incessant attacks on police and other security agents by members of the Shiite movement also known as Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN)

The inter-agency rivalry between the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC took a dramatic twist yesterday as Oyo State Command of the Corps denied a police report claiming one of its personnel, Kayode Adeyemi, was behind attempts by a three-man gang to kidnap business mogul, Femi Otedola.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni on Thursdays said that a police station in Nigeria gets N45,000 in three months as running cost.

The Commissioner for Education, Anambra State, Prof. Kate Omenugha, has explained reasons why the state is succeeding in the educational sector, noting that Governor Willie Obiano had through a three point thrust in education- infrastructure, teachers’ and students’ welfare, given education in the state the best attention.

FOLLOWING its role in the anti- graft war, the Senate said yesterday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would be empowered to keep two percent of recovered loots as soon as the amendment of the Act which set it up was completed.

A teenager, Adams Samson, one of the seven suspected pipeline vandals, caught with 113 jerry cans of petrol has said he went into bunkering to raise N4,100 for payment of his tax clearance, which he was asked to produce by his school’s management before the new session.

THE Senate yesterday rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Aliyu Saidu Abubakar from Bauchi State as a non-executive commissioner to the governing board of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, presided over by Justice Olukayode Bada, has upheld the Appeal filed against Chief Rich Arisco Osemwengie and others by the Edo State Government, the Benin Traditional Council, BTC, and others, following alleged attempt by Chief Osemwengie and others to usurp the powers and ridicule the stool of the Oba of Benin.