AN Oxford University scholar James Burton who recently conducted a research on the success of Jonathan administration’s Youth Enterprise with Innovation (YouWin) programme has recommended it as a model for Africa and other developing countries, for enterprise growth.

The Executive Chair-man, Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS) Mr. Babatunde Fowler, yesterday in Lagos, said despite recession as envisaged in Nigeria, global reliance on advertising to grow business and economies is not shrinking, but has helped to reshape tax payment systems.

A lawyer and medical practitioner, John Larry Ojukoko Esq. and Dr. Ejiro Imuere, have approached a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Senate President and Speaker, House of Representatives to set up a medical panel to examine the medical fitness of ailing President Muhammadu Buhari to discharge the function of the office of President.

As part of efforts to end youth restiveness and militancy in the oil rich Niger Delta region, the Presidential Amnesty Initiative in conjunction with the SiaOne Soccer Academy as well as the To Be Connected Nigeria have designed a programme aimed at redirecting the teeming youths from crime and criminalities into other laudable ventures.

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APC is not opposed to many issues not going well with the Nigerian state. It’s not opposed to herdsmen invasion or the fact that the North has dominated the polity or that things are not the way they ought to be. APC is not bothered by any of these issues.

THE British government has denied claims by some secession agitators in parts of Nigeria that the British government is backing their agitation to break Nigeria.

The Rt. Hon. Solomon Funkekeme is a man many would not credit with sycophancy or any of its correlates. In This interview held recently in Asaba, the former multi-term commissioner in the state and former Minority Leader and Deputy Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA) opened up on his relationship with subsisting state governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa and his performance in office, two years into his current term. He commends Okowa and likens him to Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory. Excerpts from the interview are presented below.

THE Police in Onitsha, Anambra State, over the week, uncovered a spot between the bank of the River Niger and the famous Main Market, through which unwholesome Kiwi Shoe Polish and other products were illegally imported into the commercial town and beyond.

The Borno Police Command has confirmed the multiple suicide attempts on University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID on Thursday evening.

Alapomeji Records singer, Abolore Adigun, popularly known as ‘9ice’, has opened up on the fears he nursed when he was to have his first child, Zion, with his now estranged wife, Toni Payne. According to him, when wind of the pregnancy got to him, fear gripped him because he felt he was too young to birth a child at 28. Speaking to Showtime in an exclusive interview, the Living Things singer confessed how scared he was to father a child at a young age.

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and other eminent Nigerians, will be at the launch of a book in honour of the former Premier of the Western Region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has declared that he is not a desperate politician stressing that he is waiting for God’s directive before declaring for a second term bid. The Governor who spoke yesterday in Makurdi maintained despite his achievements in office in the last two years and the calls by several groups for him to contest the 2019 governorship election, his bid would be possible if approved by God and not man.

Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo said: ‘Nigeria belongs to all of us. No person or group is more important or more entitled than the other in this space that we all call home.’

A governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Anambra State, Dr. Patrick Bufo Nwike has disclosed that his manifesto on education could move the state forward if given the mandate to govern the state in the November election.