Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday received a Nigerian, Bayode Treasures-Olawunmi who set a new Guinness World Record in longest reading marathon.

After a successful tour of US where they thrilled their audience to  splendid performances of the play, Hear word; Naija Woman Talk True at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theatre, the entire cast and crew of the play led by its Executive Director ,Ifeoma Fafunwa had an interactive session with the media in Lagos.

Juventus received a boost for their Champions League last 16 second-leg clash with Tottenham Hotspur as star striker Gonzalo Higuain returned to their starting line-up at Wembley on Wednesday.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola could afford the luxury of making six changes for his side’s Champions League last 16, second leg at home to Basel with the Premier League leaders holding a 4-0 first leg lead.

He advised the present set of journalists to try and rise above any social defects’ just like the three Musketeers

A group, Civil Societies on Police Reform, has called on the Secretary of the Afenifere, Dr. Yinka Odumakin, to join the Inspector General of Police in bringing about relative peace in Nigeria rather than condemning the mopping up of illegal firearms and ammunition.

The sorting and counting of votes have commenced in various polling centres across Sierra Leone in Wednesday’s elections.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development, and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Oladipupo Adebutu said on Tuesday that Nigerians had never had it so bad in terms of economic hardship, claiming and that they are yearning for the return of the PDP in 2019 .

A pressure group in Delta State, the Voice of Freedom Network, VFN, has upbraided Chief Great Ogboru, and All Progressives Congress, APC, Delta state chapter, over their respective positions in zoning the gubernatorial ticket of their party in the state. 

Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP,Alhaji Moshood Salvador, has advised genuine members to be weary of agents of All Progressives Congress, APC, who he accused of pretending to be PDP in the day, but APC at night.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has recorded a decrease in the number of registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) in 2018.

The Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly (NLSA) has inaugurated five standing committees to strategise on a peaceful conduct of the 2019 elections, restructuring and security in the North.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has closed its case in the trial of Clement Onubuogo, a former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment at an Ikeja High Court, Lagos.

Babalola’s Law Dictionary, a compilation of 2130 judicially defined words and phrases by the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court since 1955, has been published.

Many fair minded persons, recoiled  at Ebere Uzoukwa’s rant on Abia, as if they had seen  a snake because, that story was a piece of snow job, that degenerated from the sublime to the ridiculous. It was a metaphor for media racketeering and a manual of uncivil war of words. Baltasar Gracian; the Spanish prose writer and Jesuit priest in his famous homily to media practitioners, once pontificated that “ a single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” And integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on time tested values rather than on personal gains.