President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday, called the Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo via telephone conversation from London and felicitated with him on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Winners that emerged in the 5th draw of the Fidelity Bank Plc’s ‘Get Alert in Millions’ promo have been handed out their prizes in a presentation ceremony that took place at the bank’s head office in Lagos.

IT is an open secret that Nigerian’s economy is being systematically and deliberately raped as often canvassed in this column, what is obvious is that Nigerians have become poorer despite bountiful revenue and heavy debt accumulation over the years.

ASIWAJU is hungry. No matter how he and his media aides want to twist the issue, the truth is out. Penultimate Saturday, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with the full compliments of his political flunkeys and acolytes, stormed Akure the Ondo State capital, for the inauguration of his estranged political protégé, Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the new Governor of the Sunshine State.

People prefer using phone for transactions because it is easier and faster than going to the ATM because the ATM can be far from where they are but their bank does it easily. Since the phone can do the transfer I don’t see any reason stressing myself going to the bank to do the transfer.

The final of the Skating soccer competition targeted at physically challenged persons in Nigeria and Ghana, will take place at the Independence Stadium in Accra, Ghana on Sunday, March 19.

Atlantic Triangle, an exhibition of artworks organised by the Goethe Institute, Lagos, is set to tell the historical reconstruction of the conditions of exploitation through timely configuration of cultural dynamics and interdependence of the Brazilian Quarter in Lagos.

I reviewed a book once, starting by commending the excellent printing quality, binding, and finishing of the book. I was proud that the book was made in my own country, at the book making town of Ibadan. Let me start the review of this book, How Much is Enough?:The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth, written by Alan Durning, by discussing the cover illustration, of which, after reading the book’s content, you will agree with me that it effectively summarises the whole work.

THE Senate has uncovered an alleged fraud of N10 trillion by staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in connivance with officials of some independent marketers and other key players in the petroleum sector between 2006 and 2016.

About 3,000 youths from Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State have allegedly laid down their arms after listening to motivating sermons by a cleric, Rev. Father Abel Abulu, in the creek.

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory at Maitama has admitted into evidence a statement that implicated chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Justice Danladi Umar, in a N10 million bribery scandal.

The Federal Government has launched an Asset Tracking and Management Project, ATMProject, through which it would locate, assess and evaluate all its moveable and immoveable assets, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has announced.

The Federal Government has denied the reports by some United Nations’ agencies of imminent famine in Nigeria, saying there was no threat of starvation in the country.

In response to the growing concerns of environmental degradation from crude oil activities, Chidinma Lucy Odili, a lecturer and postgraduate student at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), is making significant strides in environmental research and advocacy in the Aguleri-Otu region of Anambra State.

Suspected smugglers, who were bringing bags of rice from the Benin Republic into Nigeria through the Badagry waterways of Lagos, weekend, jumped into the river to evade arrest by naval personnel.