The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday expressed optimism that Nigeria would overcome its socio-economic and political challenges soon.

The absence of Justice Sule Hassan of a Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday stalled the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, over money laundering.

Technology evolves every day, thus it is important to stay updated. While young Nigerians who were born during the outbreak of modern technology have no problems keeping abreast and coping with the complexities and intricacies of modern technology as well as the internet, their parents, on the other hand, who grew up pre-technology era seem to find it all confusing and intimidating.

The 2015 Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in AKWA IBOM State, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, has blasted Supreme Court Justice, John Inyang Okoro, for lying against him following his arrest and detention by security agents for alleged corruption.

THE 21st century experienced its first global melt down in the middle of 2007 when the world stock markets fell, large financial institutions collapsed and governments in even the wealthiest nations came up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. Within a short while, the world had serious financial crisis on its hand.

The Hope Democratic Party, HDP, has prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of mandamus to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to adopt electronic voting system for the 2019 general election.

As federal and state tax authorities race to bring in new tax revenues to compensate for falling oil revenues, a tax consultant, Mr. Magnus Nmonwu, has advised companies to streamline their tax submissions by putting in place technological systems and processes that enable them to report accurately on revenue and expenses in real-time.

EARLY this year, Pastor Tunde Bakare, apparently in response to his dwindling church collections, called for the resignation or sack of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Some legislators including Dino Melaye, the unofficial spokesman of the embattled Senator Bukola Saraki, joined the fray without empirical fact to link the current economic challenges to the nation’s chief banker. These rabble-rousers received unquantifiable attacks from all angles.

The youth wing of the pan Igbo socio political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of persecution and trying to convict former first lady, Patience Jonathan, at all cost

THESE are not the best of times for Imo people. Apart from the preponderance of dilapidated road networks in the state, the people are equally grappling with a number of other serious issues, including poor sales in the market, non-payment of salaries, pension and gratuities to senior citizens.