To many Nigerians, when you mention the name of Alhaji Balarabe Musa, what comes to mind is a principled man who stood his ground and lost the exalted seat of the governor of the old Kaduna state, which comprised the present Kaduna and Katsina states.

FORTUNE has smiled on the quintuplets (four males and one female) born to an unemployed housewife married to a tricycle operator in Anambra State, as an Nnewi –based philanthropist, Sir Louis Carter Onwugbenu has offered to train them to the university level.

The emergence of a new National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has rekindled hope for an exciting and democratic contest for the nomination of the party’s candidates for the 2019 general elections in Rivers State and other states of the Federation through the introduction of direct primary mode of electing candidates.

Olorogun Solomon Edojah, a former member of the House of Representatives who represented Ethiope Federal Constituency is presently a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC who ditched a leader of the party in the state, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and pitched tent with Chief Great Ogboru.

The place of woman and technology in the development of a nation cannot be disputed. Women are the cradle of human existence as nature endowed them with the gift of procreation. Similarly, the advanced nations of the world are marked by their level of technology in conquering their environment.

Opposition politics, especially in fledgling democracies often face a herculean task in the quest to garner sufficient votes to form governments at the centre.

The APC  has come  alive. It barks endlessly these days. That is some  consolation for many of its disillusioned supporters.  They can begin to hope again. That  this enthusiasm and energy would yield a strong party  with  firm democratic traditions.

POLICE in Rivers State detailed 1,500 personnel to keep law and order in today’s Rivers State House of Assembly election to fill vacant Port Harcourt Constituency III.

Major Abraham Eghagha got me thinking about President Nnamdi Azikiwe’s role in the January 15, 1966 military intervention. He was reacting to my piece on Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu. That was in April 2017.

Toma, 27, was born and raised in Lagos alongside three siblings, where she attended local primary and secondary schools before getting married off at 16 and then going off to live in North Eastern Nigeria with her husband.

Reality star Kim Kardashian was once cautioned by her doctors to stop having too much sex following revelations about the star’s daily multiple sex routine in effort to get pregnant.

Between June and July 1925, Will Rogers (1879-1935) comedian, newspaper columnist, film and radio star, and political satirist revealed his encounter with the 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge. Asked how his funny stories were all thought up, Rogers a regular guest to the first family for light-hearted jokes replied: “I don’t make jokes, Mr. President; I watch the government and report the facts.”

Nineteen Nigerians residing in Nairobi were arrested today in a police swoop for involvement in electronic fraud.

Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide on Social Media has listed those whom she thinks will vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the upcoming 2019 presidential election.

OMEI Bongos-Ikwue, daughter of music legend, Bongos Ikwue, has made Nigeria proud by rising above speech impairment to win an international speech competition in Accra, Ghana.