Vote counting was under way in Liberia on Wednesday following a peaceful run-off election for a new president, pitting former international footballer George Weah against Vice-President Joseph Boakai.

HE business of exchanging Naira mint during the Christmas and New Year celebrations had been on over the years, especially in Anambra State where people usually show off with such mints by spraying the celebrants at ceremonies. In the past, commercial banks used to supply such mints to their customers during this time of the year, but somehow, the mints disappeared from the banks.

ABUJA—SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara has said he is not excited about his current position, but by the degrees of impacts he has made on the lives of people, especially the less privileged in the society.

Rivers State governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has declared  that unless the APC-led Federal Government and its agents apologise for plotting and executing evil against Rivers State, they will continue to falter in governance.

OIL marketers, under the aegis of Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association, DAPPMA and Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, yesterday, exonerated themselves from the current fuel crisis across the country, saying that currently, there is no fuel in the depots and tanks of its members nationwide.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says Liberia is becoming a model of democracy in Africa and beyond, having attained “political stability’’

head of 2019 governorship election, the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has called on his party members in the state, to be proud of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

THE Federal Government has ordered depot operators to engage on 24-hour loading of petrol, in a bid to ease the long queues and scarcity witnessed across the country.

VERY early at the start of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari voluntarily promised to release the list of those he called looters. On 12th December 2015 the President said the only thing holding back the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from publishing the list of those who looted Nigeria and have returned parts of the loot was to avoid jeopardising investigations and further recoveries. Till today, he has not fulfilled that promise.

KANO State Government, yesterday, demanded, the Kwankwassiyya Group tender unreserved apology to President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC,  over comments that the Preident is fuelling crisis in the state.

The Labour Party, LP, yesterday, kicked against the Federal Government’s approval for the release of $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, to prosecute the war against the Boko Haram insurgency.

Uneasy calm has enveloped Owerri, following the renaming of Assumpta Avenue by Governor Rochas Okorocha, to Muhammadu Buhari Road.

Croatia National Team manager Zlatko Dali has clarified his comments about knowing the starting line-up that will take to the Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad pitch against Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup on June 16.

SENATOR Magnus Abe,  yesterday, said that Govenor Nyesom Wike foresaw and warned him over the current antagonism he faces from former Governor Chibuike  Amaechi-led All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State.

A policeman and five other persons were killed in an inter-communal conflict between the villages of Uyangha and Ojor on Christmas Day in Cross River State.