Recently, issues around the 30 per cent broadband penetration target Nigeria set for itself with the National broadband plan in 2013, have been more controversial than any other development in the telecom sector.

THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is to emerge at the presidential primary of the party scheduled to hold on October 6, 2018.

ENUGU—ENUGU State Board of Internal Revenue after obtaining court orders, yesterday, carried out a distrainment exercise on four banks and two other private firms, located in Enugu metropolis and Nsukka, for non-payment of taxes due to the state government, totalling over N200 million.

Those who are familiar with how madness begins to manifest in a person, will tell you that no man becomes mad in just one day. Madness follows a sequence. Of course psychiatrists and those who work in the mental health area can easily notice when a patient goes through the stages or sequence. But for the ordinary folks like us, we also some times notice this sequence   more so when the subject is closely related to us. Signs of mental illness may start with the subject being unusually moody which could represent depression or in some cases the subject may become unusually aggressive and hyperactive called hyperactive disorder.

FIFA on Tuesday threatened to suspend the Nigeria and Ghana football federations over government interference.

LAGOS — A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, released the embattled Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Mr. Moshood Salvador, accused of murder, from prison custody.

Aretha Franklin, the legendary soul singer who has fallen gravely ill, was visited at her Detroit-area home on Tuesday by fellow recording artist Stevie Wonder, U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and ex-husband Glynn Turman, her publicist said.

MAIDUGURI—Borno State government has presented a cheque of N5 million to Israel Zakari Galadima, who scored 364 points, the highest, in the 2018 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, JAMB-UTME

One of the songs of the late Israel Nwoba Njemanze, which was released in the 1950s, had this lyric: Many days are for the thief, but one day is for the owner of the house!

LAGOS—President Muhammadu Buhari will contest the 2019 presidential election and win, irrespective of the campaign of calumny by a vocal minority pushing forth its agenda against the President, the Presidency declared, yesterday.