IN its renewed efforts at keeping a cleaner environment, the Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the Cleaner Lagos Initiative, says plans are ongoing at employing 27,000 sanitation workers to achieve this feat.

THE Appeal Court sitting in Benin, yesterday affirmed the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state after dismissing the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the September 28, 2016 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

Plans are in top gear by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to revoke the registration of 400 capital market professionals over failure to comply with the commission’s directive on updated information of their companies by July 31, 2017.

Andre Ayew wants to take his late-season form for West Ham United into Ghana’s opening 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier this weekend.

Elderson Echiejile has warned that the Super Eagles cannot afford to underestimate South Africa in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

The Chatham house published a report on Nigeria a few days ago. The country has been raped by thieves. Nigeria has lost over 500 billion dollars since 1960 and 180 billion in the last 8 years. Nigerians aren’t shocked. The brunt of that plunder has lived with them.

Fitting Galactico signings into the Real Madrid team is a common problem for Los Blancos coaches and Zinedine Zidane is finding that, if he is to bring in Kylian Mbappe, another big name star may have to go.

For one who rose to the zenith in his profession, Mr. Udom Emmanuel was not expected to shed the demeanour of a banker within three years of his exit from Zenith Bank. It was as such not surprising that his engagements in governance are severally viewed with the perspective of an adroit banker checking for loopholes in a business proposal.

Late legendary Super Eagles defender, Uche Okafor might have passed on to the great beyond but his legacies live on. Six years after his demise in Dallas, Texas, US, one of his great gifts to the world, his daughter, Tochuckwu Okafor has graduated from the University of Texas in flying in colours.

In the early 80s, I was addicted to Ray Ekpu’s, the late Dele Giwa’s and the late Andy Akporugo’s newspaper columns. One of Akporugo’s articles, which my young mind ranked among his best, was titled: “Frailty of Power” or something close to that.