A host of recession-ravaged Nigerians are in a hurry to bid year 2016, which ends today, good bye. Arguably, 2016 has been a year of high-wire political intrigues, bickering and economic misfortune for many of them. It was a year that inflation rate hit over 18 per cent as the Naira had a free fall against the Dollar with prices of basic goods and essential commodities spiralling out of the reach of most Nigerians with the attendant hunger and gnashing of the teeth.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has once again declared that President Muhammadu Buhari was only fighting his perceived political foes under the guise of fighting corruption, while at the same time trying to make sure that no opposition politician will be strong enough financially to contest against him in 2019.

Med-View Airline top management, led by the Managing Director, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, held interactive session in Lagos with passengers whose baggage were left behind in Gatwick Airport, London last week Thursday and assured them that the last batch of the luggage will arrive today, Saturday, adding that the first batch arrived yesterday aboard British Airways on special arrangement made by Med-View Airline.

At least 40 families were rendered homeless as fire destroyed a popular batcher estate in Jubilee Avenue in Rumuolumeni Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Wednesday.

The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) yesterday distributed offer letters to some of the beneficiaries of the pilot scheme of the N25 billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), with a pledge to create at least 300, 000 direct and 600, 000 indirect jobs by 2019 through the initiative.

Cattle dealers in Garriki Cattle market, Awkunanu-Enugu, yesterday faulted media reports that their mosque was burnt down owing to a dispute between two people in the market that led to their deaths.

DISTURBED by the unceasing spate of sectarian killings of Christians in Southern Kaduna, the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has declared the second Sunday of 2017 as a national day of mourning.

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA yesterday reacted to the call by Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, that the navigational aids at all the country’s airports needed to be functional and upgraded as they are obsolete.

Muslims worldwide have been advised to eschew all forms of unholy acts capable of bringing negative image to Islam.

For President Buhari, the year was a very challenging one seeing the prices of essential commodities including Nigeria’s staple foods such as rice skyrocket

A group, Movement Against Road Accidents, MARA, has charged the Federal Government to provide adequate support to the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC in its bid to enforce speed limit on the nation’s highways to curb rising wave of accidents.

No fewer than 66 nurses have retired from the Ogun State Hospital Management Board after serving for 35 years with government hospitals. The retired nurses had worked in almost all the state-owned health facilities across the state.

He should be unequivocal in his approach that his recent orders to intensify exploration and production of petroleum in the north is not to say an alternative have been found in his geographic north for he is the President of Nigeria

The initial euphoria of marrying a beauty and brains is gone

The problem we have is that charlatans and all sorts of people have hijacked leadership