Ekiti State Government has declared that its emergence the state with the best performance in the National Examination Council (NECO) result released on Saturday was earned.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, says the state needs a competent, credible and hardworking governor to efficiently manage the state’s resources and effectively execute people-oriented programmes.

Oddly enough, there are two answers to that question: yes and no. There is abundance evidence to prove that the President who launched another campaign to officially change Nigerian attitudes and values, and his accomplice in that regard, the Minister of Information and Culture, might not be the right people to be preaching to us – their Fellow Countrymen. To begin with, not all changes are beneficial to society.

An American designer and art collector, based in Nigeria and married to a Nigerian, Caroline Karugari Oyekunle, is angry with the ruling of a Lagos State High Court on the battle for the custody of their two children between her and her estranged husband, Olatunde Oyekunle, describing it as unfortunate.

Nollywood Director and former Executive Assistant, Creative Entertainment and Tourism, under the Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Youth and Students Affairs, Dickson Iroegbu, has been separated from his wife, Efe, for six years now. And since the separation, Iroegbu has had to live with the reality of playing the role of a father as well as a mother to his three children. He shares his story with us even as he says he has no regrets becoming a single parent.

Notwithstanding the current economic recession and security challenges, transformation is ongoing across Lagos State. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode had, in his 2016 new year broadcast to residents, assured of his commitment to ensuring that the state witnessed improvement in infrastructural development, job creation and security.

The crude repression of the Abacha government forced this revered nationalist to flee the country in May 1996 to seek political asylum in North America. Earlier on in 1994, Enahoro had heroically accepted the ignominy of detention for about four months at the hands of the same government. This time around, it was strong evidence of life threatening danger that made him accept to flee Nigeria at age 73.

Brethren, it is still September, the month of fruitfulness. To me, and many women that I know, it is a special month. It is the month of my breakthrough which brought about the birth of my son, after 22 years of waiting on the Lord.

The projects of the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led administration remain the key assets of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State governorship election rescheduled for September 28. Anyone who has been in Edo in the past twenty years will appreciate the strides made so far in building infrastructures and beautifying the cities in the state by this administration. However, in this campaign, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tried to remind the people that there is hunger in town and that infrastructures cannot guarantee good life for the people. But the PDP’s record during its stay at Osadebey Avenue (Govt. House) for ten years is not helping matters.

The bible is full of simplistic statements masquerading as God-given theological doctrines. Many of them are naïve and palpably false.

Apparently, Ironsi’s explanation was ineffectual: either the emirs and key members of the northern ruling elite doubted his sincerity or the Hausa-Fulani animosity against Ndigbo living in the north had reached the omega point or point of no return.

Nigeria can be likened to the prodigal son, who grabbed much of his rich father’s assets and went to what the Bible described as a ‘far country’ and squandered the wealth with women of easy virtue and returned home a wretched man, bemoaning his fate.

Chief Tom Ikimi has seen it all in Nigeria’s politics since the short lived third republic when he was the National Chairman of the National Republic Convention. Since the current political dispensation started in 1999, he has traversed all the major parties in the country including the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Today, he is a leader of the PDP. Ikimi, in this interview, speaks on the September 28 poll in Edo State.

The Nigerian Army said it had recovered 55 assorted weapons from suspected criminals in the Niger Delta.

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State are among eminent Nigerians expected at the 7th Annual Event and Award Night of Abike Ade Foundation, scheduled to hold on Thursday, September 29, at Welcome Centre Hotels, International Airport Road, Lagos.