The Finland FA has handed a six-match ban to Nigerian striker Gbolahan Salami.

Akwa Ibom State Internal Revenue Service has expressed its readiness to work with the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to enhance highway safety in the state.

Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, has said that the state government is committed to reducing poverty and unemployment in the state through the newly-established Ibile Microfinance Bank.

Mr Friday Osanebi, Deputy Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, was received by the leadership of Ndosumili Development Union, NDU and Ukwuani Foundation Union, UFU, in conjunction with NNU President-General Chief Johnson Opone in Lagos, yesterday.

The body of a 33-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Ajeniyi Victor, killed Monday evening by flood that followed a two-hour downpour in Ado-Ekiti, was found along Elemi’s River bank in the town, yesterday.

Residents of Ahiamakara, in Ogbunabali Community, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Rivers State, have been thrown into pandemonium following a quit notice served on them by the state government.

Thousands of youths, yesterday, held solidarity rally for President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, for the fight against corruption in the country and youth empowerment, just as some others said the youths were misled.

CRISIS has hit the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, leading to expulsion of the Deputy chairman of the party in the state, Mr. Adolphus Udeh.

THE South East Council of Traditional Rulers yesterday called on the general public to desist from transacting any business with Eze Cletus Ilomuanya as the chairman of the council and to desist from addressing him as such, saying that he has since ceased to be the chairman of the South East Traditional Rulers council.

ONITSHA – Literary icon and co-author of Eze Goes to School, late Odinigwe Onuora Joseph Nzekwu has been buried in Onitsha, Anambra State, by members of his Agbalanze Society, in a haze of glory. Nzekwu, pioneer general manager of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, was committed to mother earth amidst tight security, following the temporary relocation of his wife, Mrs Justina Nzekwu, to her paternal home, before the arrival of her husband’s corpse from the mortuary for interment, declining to make public, the major reason for her relocation.

The first encounter of a lawful citizen with the police often begins when he stops his car at the flashing torchlight that suddenly leaps into his path on a dark and lonely road. Inevitable questions follow as to his identity, his destination and “what he is carrying

He was fondly called the Golden Voice from the North by reason of his oratorical prowess which he used to maximum effect to dazzle his listeners. Even in advanced old age that voice continued to resonate, impressing and even mystifying any time he opened his mouth to speak.

What type of example of probity or transparency does this government pretend to when it engages in this kind of profligacy?

Resuming from break, yesterday, the Senate immediately went into a standoff with the presidency, vowing to stand down all requests for confirmation into executive positions in the Federal Government.

FORMER President,Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, explained that he fired military officers exposed to politics when he held sway as President in order to prevent coup in the country.