Media practitioners must be objective in their reportage of violence to guide against glorifying it at the expense of the unity and integrity of the nation.

Tope Okeowo of non-league English side Peckham United has expressed joy at his call-up to the Super Eagles’ Crowne Plaza Camp.

Adeyinka Adelakun, a middle aged public school teacher in Ibadan, on Thursday narrated how his wife, kafayat, poured boiling water on his manhood which seriously injured him.

Nigeria and its neighbours have received the commendation of the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson or the effective strategies adopted to combat the destructive activities of the Boko Haram terrorists .

SECRETARY to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal, on Thursday made a U- turn regarding the invitation by the Senate that he should appear before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East.

The police on Thursday arraigned a 24-year-old man, Chima Ezeakolam in an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, charged with beating his sister, Queen Ezeakolam to a pulp over plate of extra food.

A polytechnic lecturer, Mr Adeyemi Aina, has urged authorities of higher schools in Nigeria, to make entrepreneurial studies a compulsory course for every undergraduate, to tackle the high unemployment in the country.

Permit me to begin this contribution with an aside. The barbarians that launched a terror attack in Westminster, London yesterday in which four people were killed and many more injured are the same type of people that attacked and beheaded the sons and daughters of Ile Ife in their own homes and on their own land earlier this month.

Osun State under Governor Aregbesola can now boast of recording the highest school children enrolment rate in Nigeria and the least state with lowest number of Out of School Children, OOSC, in Nigeria according to the National Bureau of Statistics. It took determination and strategic intervention to eliminate out of school children in Osun State.

2018 World Cup qualifying European zone tables ahead of Friday-Sunday qualifiers (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, clashed with the Chairman, Constitution and Electoral Reforms Committee, Senator Ken Nnamani over the composition of the committee members, asking its Chairman to resign.

Super Eagles’ goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, has been ruled out of Thursday’s friendly against Senegal in London following an injury.

Gareth Southgate was able to take heart from a positive display despite his first defeat as England manager, 1-0 to Germany in Dortmund on Wednesday.

WE are today taking a short excursion into Criminology. Confidence Game (con-game for short) depicts a crime situation where the person who should have reported the crime is part of it. For example, if you were to patronise a prostitute in a jurisdiction where prostitution was outlawed; and in the course of an argument, she stabbed you with a kitchen knife; you were on your own for, if you reported to the police, you would first have to explain what you were doing in a whore house. That is the exact nature of many aspects of life, particularly gambling.

THAT the country’s economy is currently experiencing a downturn, a situation largely precipitated by a reversal of oil fortunes, is no longer news. No thanks to decades of over-reliance on a monolithic economy and the utter relegation of agriculture, once the country’s cash cow.