FORMER Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday reaffirmed his innocence of charges leveled against him in the United Kingdom where he recently served a jail term, saying, “I am not a thief.”

WITHIN these twenty months of the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, we have been privileged to see two “faces” of his presidency. The first face is the General Muhammadu Buhari character of it, while the second is the Professor Yemi Osinbajo coloration. These two faces are dramatically different. Let us look at them briefly.

Justice A. Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared that the Extra Ordinary General Meeting, EGM, of the Ikeja Hotel Plc, held on January 6, 2015, where the chairman of the hotel’s board, Mr. Goodie Ibru was supposedly removed as unlawful, illegal and of no effect.

Catholic youths at Our Lady of Good Counsel, Imerienwe in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, have continued to complain about celebrating a mass in their church without a priest.

THE National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has said compliance to compulsory insurance is still at the low ebb in the country.

NIGERIA at the African Union, AU, Assembly rolled out its fearsome arsenal; diplomatic, political and economic in a contest to win the leadership of the Peace and Security Commission, PSC. The Giant of Africa which has been in economic recession, must have expended quite some money, at least for travels and estacode across the continent campaigning for its candidate, Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said its lead prosecutor on the trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme, Charles Adeogun-Philips, was disengaged over non-disclosure of conflict of interest and other sundry reasons.

Piqued by the sustained lack of access to mortgage and housing microfinance nationwide, the Nigeria Housing Finance Programme (NHFP) implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with the support of the World Bank, has commenced its process of literacy and consumer education campaign to stem the tide.

Fulani herdsmen in Ibarapa area of Oyo State, on the platform of Jamu Nati Fulbe Association of Nigeria, have threatened to close down all Kara Markets (cattle markets) in the area over the disappearance of about 500 cows.

I don’t receive alerts due to change of number but getting my alert on my new line is becoming more difficult than a job interview. The customer care personnel demand I provide an affidavit before I can use my fully registered MTN sim card and my ATM card isn’t working. It is the third card I have collected between 2016/ 2017, how awkward. I don’t know if the cards don’t last or my own don’t last. I really can’t say.

THE Eargasm concert which held on Saturday, February 11, 2017, was a symphonic night of classic melodies from artistes of note, delivered to an extra excited audience who thronged the prestigious Convention Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos

THE 73-year-old priest of St. Joseph Catholic church, Okpare-Olomu, Delta State, Very Rev. Fr. Stephen Ekakabor, was, yesterday morning, axed in the head by gunmen that invaded the mission house.

HERITAGE Bank Plc has rewarded 24 loyal customers in its on-going Happy Days Promo with 42-inch LED flat screen TV at a monthly raffle draws held in Lagos yesterday.

IT appears that the e-dividend policy initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC is beginning to yield fruits as the value of unclaimed dividend has dropped by N30 billion from over N80 billion in 2016.

The Vice Principal of Victory Secondary Commercial School, Calabar, Chief Offiong Asuquo Nyong, was, weekend, shot dead in his house by unknown gunmen.