LAGOS— Erstwhile leader of Jama’atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da’awati wal-Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has released a recorded message a few hours after news of his successor was made public by ISIS.

Contrary to reports that the presidency could have bailed out the U-23 football team stranded in Atlanta, USA by sending a presidential jet to ferry the team to Brazil, the CNN yesterday reported how American airline, Delta Airline assisted the team and saved Nigeria from an embarrassment

ABUJA — APPARENTLY disturbed by the dimension the padding allegations surrounding the 2016 budget has taken, the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday barred Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; former chairman of Appropriation Committee, Abdulmunin Jibrin, and other lawmakers from talking to the press on the issue.

ABUJA— Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, called on the warring members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sheathe their swords and allow the party to pick up its bits and pieces.

PROMINENT Igbo leader and member of Board of Trustees of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has described the attempt to remove Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the governor of Abia State following the order of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja as treasonable.