A meeting called to forge unity among prominent Southwest chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ended on an icy note yesterday after former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and some close allies walked out after the first round of a two-stage meeting.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has revealed that Wilfred Ndidi might make his Premier League debut when the champions take on Chelsea featuring another Nigeria international, Victor Moses at the King Power Stadium on Saturday.

Elder statesman and Chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, and his deputy, Professor Chiweyite Ejike, have distanced themselves and the ILT from any court case seeking to nullify the election of the Chief John Nnia Nwodo-led newly elected Ohanaeze executive.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, expressed confidence that the prevailing peace in the creeks of the Niger Delta would be sustained.

Reactions, yesterday, trailed the arrest of Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, by the Police in Lagos over allegations of threat to life and blackmail by a London-based journalist, Lekan Fatodu, with the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, condemning the police action.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, called for an increase in royalties across all categories in the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract, PSC, in the petroleum industry.

In 2016, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG far exceeded its 2015 record. The Stuttgart-based sportscar manufacturer delivered a total of 237,778 vehicles around the world, some 6 per cent more than the previous record. The key drivers of growth were Europe, the USA and China. The Macan and the new 718 Boxster had a particularly positive effect on the result. The excellent response to the new Panamera provides an additional boost.

After much anxiety, there  are strong indications that the long anticipated local government elections in Lagos State would soon be held.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state took his predecessor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the cleaners yesterday over the latter’s foreign scholarship scheme saying the entire scheme was a scam.

Badagry, a town foundedaround 1425 A.D, today provides endless exciting experience for tourists from the first story building in Nigeria constructed by the Anglican missionaries to the Agia Tree , where Christianity was first preached in Nigeria, fascinating beach fronts and enchanting lagoon waterways, and the the Island point of No return, the town indeed has a lot to offer tourists.