lAST Tuesday, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode held the Third Quarter 2016 Town Hall Meeting, the fifth in the series, at the Ultra Modern Indoor Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere to render account of his administration’s tenure so far in the state.

ALL Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has called on Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court, to retract his allegation of bribery levelled against Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, within seven days or risk law suit.

Sokoto State Arabic and Islamic Education Board, has disbursed N20 million as grant to proprietors of some Islamic Schools, clerics and Islamic organisations in the state.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved four places up in the October world football rankings released by FIFA yesterday.

Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior, the eldest son of the Ogoni author and activist whose 1995 execution sent shockwaves around the world, passed away, aged only 47, on Tuesday. And I am more devastated than mere words can ever express.

FOLLOWING the demise of the Akarigbo and paramount ruler of Remoland, Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo, the office of the Chairman of Ogun State Council of Obas became vacant.

Owerri—Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and his Abia State counterpart, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, have declared that the oil-producing states should be given adequate attention.

ENUGU—There are strong indications that the ongoing investigations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, into the N450 million campaign funds involving former governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime, and two former Chairmen of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Chief Charles Egumgbe and Ikeje Asogwa among others, would linger for some time following disagreements betwen the suspects in their statements.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has adjourned till October 26, to hear the suit by 16 senior officers of the Nigerian Police Force, against Abubakar Aliyu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, over their forceful ejection from premises.

This year’s Olojo Festival may have come and gone but not the indelible imprints it has left in the minds of the people, both indigenes of the ancient town of Ile-Ife and those who converged on the city to celebrate what the Yoruba regard as the celebration of the creation of the universe.