Two children, weekend, were reportedly roasted to death with several others sustaining sever burns as fire razed Mkpang Utong, a fishing community in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteghonor announced her return to top form at the weekend with a blistering 22.04seconds run at the 2018 Wes Kittley Invitational in Texas, erasing the 200m women African record held by Mary Onyali-Omagbemi since August 1996 in the process.

The APC Federal Government’s cheap triumphalism in the wake of the Dapchi girls’ release was clearly meant to divert attention from its failure to secure boarding schools in the North-East and thus prevent a repeat of the Chibok horror

The purpose of this mega rally was to drive home to the grassroots and educate our people about the importance of restructuring and that was what the meeting was meant for and to tell our people that our survival in the country is not guaranteed because a situation where resources found in our area are being exploited by other Nigerians who benefit from them and give us pittance and then demand us to show gratitude to them. That is the situation of a second class citizen, that is the situation where he is being colonised by his fellow Nigerian.

LEADERS of Niger Delta, yesterday, gave members of Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, and other militant groups in the region a four-day ultimatum to withdraw their 30-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government to reinstate the sacked chairman of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP,  Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd).

Coalition of Lagos Enterpreneurs and Professionals, CLEP, yesterday declared their support and endorsed Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, for a second term in office.

SENATOR Andy Uba who is representing Anambra South Senatorial District,  on Sunday, denied allegation that he forged his West African Examination Council, WAEC, certificate.

Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have called for increased attendance to Antenatal care by pregnant women to reduce the high rate of infant and maternal mortality in the country.

Super Eagles and Arsenal forward, Alex Iwobi has said that he wants to do better than his uncle and former Captain of the team, Austin Okocha.

Mr Menz Ikpeme, governorship candidate of Action Congress in the 2011 elections and Mr Patrick Ita, former member of Cross River  State House of Assembly, were among the 180  beneficiaries of the empowerment scheme of Ministry of Niger Delta  Affairs in Cross River State.

Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr has said that his team remain “a work in progress” and warned they “won’t get carried away with friendly success” after they beat Poland 1-0.

BETWEEN February 19, 2018 when the Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted by supposed Boko Haram insurgents and Wednesday, March 21, 2018, when the news broke that 76 of them had been released, I had offered perspectives on the incident in two articles.  The first was titled: Chibok and Dapchi girls: The whoredom of Karma, while the second was titled: Gbomogbomo as metaphor.

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate and Chairman, National Contact Committee of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, Senator Rowland Owie has said that the party has ceded the presidency to the North while the South East will take the Vice Presidential slot.

Wherever information is hoodwinked, teleguided and unnecessarily classified, it precipitates information imperialism, news autocracy and the messiah complex

THE  Governing Council of the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN  has approved the appointment of Dr. Folaranmi Modupe Olowoleni, as the new Registrar of the University.