As the only African to make it to the quater-final of the World Cup and Olympic Games, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) through it Publication Editor, Ian Marshal has described Aruna Quadri has a record setter following his feat at the Polish Open at the weekend.

PROFESSIONALS in the construction sub-sector of the nation’s economy, weekend, took a surgical look at the performance of the sector under the recession and what is expected of the sector as the country exits economic recession, pointing out that the continued patronage of foreign construction firms at the expense of their Nigerian counterparts has remained a major draw back to the sector.

GOVERNOR Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State has dismissed reports that the state accessed N10 billion from the primary education fund.

A national chairmanship aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, said yesterday in Lagos that he had no plan of stepping down for any of the other contenders.

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, yesterday, raised the alarm over the erosion of Yoruba culture by what he called received religions of Islam and Christianity.

Power Oil, in collaboration with Ogun State government, has deployed its health camp team across three primary health centres from different local government areas of Ogun State to support and facilitate the vital check process of the Ministry of Health.

GOVERNOR Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, yesterday, met President Muhammadu Buhari  closed-door at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and demanded a refund of N13 billion the state spent during the last administration on security to fight the Boko Haram insurgents.

Ekiti State Executive Council has described the arrest and continued detention of two of its members by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  as a classic abuse of power and a witch-hunt by pseudo-democrats in Abuja to diabolically incapacitate the state government

Oyo State Government has appealed to custodians of arable land across agrarian communities in the state to make them available to individuals and investors wishing to engage in large scale agricultural ventures.

DURING July/August, I spent part of my summer in the beautiful city of Barcelona, the capital of Spain’s Catalan region. I gave a talk at an international conference on the New Silk Road in which China hopes to invest over a $1 trillion to create a new co-prosperity sphere stretching through Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Mediterranean.