Chief of the Army Staff, Lt General T Y Buratai, says, as a young army officer, he lived in a makeshift apartment, popularly known as ‘batcher’, between 1989 and 1990 owing to acute shortage of accommodation facing the Nigerian Army.

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has started repositioning to make the maritime sector friendly, thereby attracting more investors into the country.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation is an ‘Africa based and African funded philanthropic organisation dedicated to the promotion of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship and to enhancing the competitiveness of the private sector across Africa‘. It is a programme in which 1,000 entrepreneurs are selected based on the viability of their ideas, including market opportunity, financial understanding, scalability and leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The lucky young Africans undergo twelve weeks of intensive training and at the end; 5,000 dollars are given to each as non refundable seed capital and access to another five thousand dollars in convertible loan.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, on Friday, stopped his convoy and personally coordinated the rescue of three accident victims along Akure-Ondo Road.

How true these statements are, music calms and soothes when you are feeling down, lonely and uptight. It is important to find a favourite sound that suites your mood, priority and character; which gives you a kick when you listen to it.

DESPITE the heavy presence of soldiers and policemen, the rerun election in Etche local government area of Rivers State, yesterday, still witnessed incidents of violence.

The Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, has commended national telecommunications operator, Globacom, for its support for the preservation of culture in the country.

•February1999: Presidential primaries in Jos, Plateau State: Olusegun Obasanjo’s victory as the presidential candidate shakes the party.

A wave of political pressures may have forced the emergence of a new order in the nation’s foreign exchange market even as currency speculators abandon their positions with losses going up to N45 billion and more.

Three have been reported killed and four others injured in an explosion that took place at Gari village near Kontagora town in Niger state yesterday.

The great philosopher, Socrates, once said, “an unexamined life is not worth living” and the Bible in Hosea 4:6 also said that “my people perish for lack of knowledge”. And events in and around the world reveals that it is real, and that is why developed nations do not play with the study of history as a subject. History is just the record of past experiences and it is good because without the past, many cannot make it in the future.

The event making the 2016 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl In Eko (MBGE)-Beauty Pageant has been scheduled to take place on June 27.

Riding on two successful outings in the movies, Bridges and The End, in which she played lead roles, Canada- based thespian, Bukky Abaniwonda has promised to bring her game to the Nigeria movie industry, saying acting is much more than just interpreting roles.

The Rotary Club of Osubi under District 9140, has commenced community development works in Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State, with the laying of the foundation stone of the community’s health centre. In her welcome address, Rtn. Mfon Otite-Douglas, President, Rotary Club of Osubi, expressed appreciation to the leaders and people of the community for giving them land for the project, especially to the Chairman of the community, Mr. Igho Omategiren and Chief Sherrif Oborevwori, member, representing Okpe state consistency in Delta State House of Assembly.

Diplomats are expected to defend their home countries both in word and deed. But Lulu Mnguni, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, needed more than the finesse of diplomacy to talk his country out of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in his home country. Personal conviction was required.”Mob attacks defile South African values for respect for human life, human dignity”, Mnguni said last Wednesday. “We condemn the violence in the strongest possible terms. Our struggle against apartheid was a struggle against dehumanization of people; it was a struggle for human rights. And given the basis of our Constitution, our foreign policies revolve around human rights,” he added.