In the build-up to the Anambra State governorship election in 2014, Mr. Oseloka Henry Obaze [OHO] was actually the first choice of the party faithful to succeed Mr. Peter Obi. His primacy was informed by the need to consolidate the giant strides the state had recorded with the celebrated Anambra State Integrated Development Strategy [ANIDS].

The Federal Government has told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the record of spending of N388.304billion London Paris Club Loan refunds by 35 states released to the states by Federal Government to pay overdue pensioners’ entitlements and workers’ salaries “is protected by professional privilege, and therefore confidential.”

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says it has registered and certified 33, 259 teachers in Akwa Ibom.

The Kula community, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers, has called on government and security agencies to improve security the St. Bartholomew and Akuku-Toru waterways and the adjoining creeks.

Mr Pat Obiene, an environmental rights activist, wants the Federal Government to allow only former operators of artisanal refineries in the Niger Delta, own the proposed modular refineries in the region.

Some people of Osomba and Akim communities in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River have commended the State Government for establishing a new cocoa estate in the area.

Chief Sibia Aaron, Chairman , Kula Community Development Committee (CDC), Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers, has commended BelemaOil Producing Limited, for engaging youths from the community, including professionals.

Matt 24: 40- 44 says, “Then shall two be in the field;  the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Ilesha was agog as Osun State government commissioned the state-of-the-art  Ilesa Government High School.

For the first time since the return to democratic governance in the country, the people of Benue State, irrespective of socio-political, religious and cultural differences, have come out to align themselves with the government in power.

FORMER Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo yesterday in Awka urged professionals in various fields to shun politics and concentrate in their areas of specialties, arguing that the clamour for politics by the professionals was killing knowledge in the country.

Gen. Collin Powell, United States Secretary of State under Obama administration, and a  former British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, are among eminent  people across the world who have taught the virtues of leadership on the aegis of the Global Leadership Summit (GLS), according to the National Director of Vision International Christian Ministries (VICM), Rev. Francis Olubambi.

THE embarrassing escape of four high profile kidnap suspects from police custody in Ebonyi State has led to the detention and trial of five policemen on duty in Ivo local government area.

13 days to the Anambra  election, the electorate are bracing up  for a battle of Titanic proportions. Not only is there a star-studded line-up of heavyweight candidates for the poll, each of whom is truly distinguished in his own right, there is the obvious desperation of the APC- led federal government to “capture” the state which, against all odds, has remained the one true bastion of Emeka Ojukwu’s All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). To further complicate the situation, there is in addition the widely reported iron determination of a former governor of the state to teach the incumbent, Willie Obiano, the lesson of his lifetime, over issues  arising from Obiano’s Campaigns and subsequent election in 2013.

Former world boxing light and welterweight contender, Obisia Nwankpa has decried the state of boxing in the country, saying that Nigeria will continue to stumble in international meets, unless urgent steps are taken to redress the state of the sport.