The United States presidential election was on election eve going down to the wire after the Federal Bureau of Investigations again intervened to clear Democratic presidential candidate, Mrs. Hilary Clinton of any wrongdoing in the email scandal that has dogged her bid to become the first female president of the country.

IYAMHO— MADAM Veronica Uloko, a 132 -year-old super-centenarian from Iyamho community, Etsako clan, Edo State, the hometown of the outgoing Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has uncovered the secret of the governor’s uncommon boldness and power.

WHEN my phone rang around 1 p.m on Tuesday, it was Sir Olaniwun Ajayi with the sheer musicality of his voice “Yinka the Solomon”. I stood in awe as I have always done unconsciously since July 29 this year. I come back to that shortly.

WARRI—A 21-year-old man, Usman Jafar, dressed in military camouflage, narrowly escaped lynching yesterday after he was caught with a stolen iPhone 6 handset in Warri, Delta State.

THE United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, in collaboration with Delta State Government, have given a lifeline to 62 vulnerable persons in Bomadi Local Government Area with the provision of walking aids and education materials.

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Special Unit have arrested 18 suspected vandals, who breake pipelines and siphon petrol and crude oil from distribution points in different parts of the country.

THE House of Representatives has decried the absence of functional radiotherapy machines in the nation’s hospitals and urged the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, to replace achines in all the federal health institutions were repaired.

A COUNTRY that does not embrace merit in carrying out its affairs will never get out of the starting blocks. The examples are too numerous to mention. In Mao Tse-tung’s China, children were separated from their biological parents to avoid issues related to sentiments, where is China today? At the top.

NIGERIAN Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, said it is targeting a six-month timeline for contracting cycle. Executive Secretary of the Board, Simbi Wabote, said such strict timeline is part of new measures to shorten the protracted contracting cycle in the oil and gas industry and revitalize the implementation of Nigerian Content. Prior to this, contracting cycle had elongated between two to four years, causing huge frustration amongst investors in the sector.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, said, yesterday, that Benue State small holder farmers, under its Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, will harvest over 10,000 metric tonnes of high quality rice this month.

MONARCHS in Ondo South Senatorial District have tasked the AD candidate, Olusola Oke, on redressing perceived marginalisation of the people of the zone in the scheme of things in the state by the current government.

The duo of Watford’s Odion Ighalo and Trabzonspor’s Ogenyi Onazi have stormed the team’s camp in Abuja Monday night.

Rev Nicholas Okoh, Primate, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, says people are living under a perpetual sense of insecurity and uncertainty in all parts of Nigeria because of different forms of fear.

An environmentalist and public health practitioner, Dr Isaac Ayodele, has argued that the concept of offering hope for the less privileged through provision of free medical health checks should be further encouraged.

The God we serve is a merciful God and full of compassion .He gives His people freedom of Expression and Fair Hearing as contained in s.38 and s.36 respectively of our Nigerian constitution( as amended). When Adam sinned against Him,