Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi, Moses Simon from La Liga side Levante as well as Samuel Kalu are locked in a Titanic battle for who will start for the Super Eagles against Libya on Saturday.

In a matter of hours, the Super Eagles will be having, perhaps their sternest test yet, in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series, when they confront The Mediterranean Knights of Libya at the magnificent Akwa Ibom International Stadium, Uyo. As the minutes are ticking away, the atmosphere here in Uyo is electrifying.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, said it had stepped up its activities to curb destruction of petroleum assets across the  country, while it warned that vandals of oil installations and petroleum products thieves risk 21 years to life imprisonment if caught.

The marketing communications industry has been on an upward growth trajectory in recent years. The industry has recorded an influx of young and up-coming professionals with diverse ideas on how marketing communications should be done across the various communication platforms.

ONE of the greatest upsets of the recent primaries of the various political parties to select candidates for the 2019 general elections across the country was the defeat of Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, the wife of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for the ticket of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra South Senatorial zone.

Christmas season will never be the same again in Anambra State. Sally Mbanefo, Anambra State’s very resourceful Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism has in the works an unprecedented Anambra Homecoming Festival that will put at full play cultural exhibitions, musical extravaganza, theatre displays, avant-garde carnival, poetry renditions, palm-wine-tasting etc.

It started in the Garden City last week when in the full glare of thousands of Nigerians and millions of others watching live on television screens, he beat 11 others to the sole Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to run for the office of the President in the 2019 general elections. But Atiku Abubakar, is gradually morphing into a national figure capable of ousting the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2019.

Eko Hotel and Suites came alive on Monday 1st of October, 2018 as ten of Nigeria’s biggest music stars, namely; Falz, Kwam1, Olamide, Tiwa Savage, Simi, DJ Cuppy, Slim Case, Tekno, Small Doctor and Chidinma– thrilled music lovers at the Supremacy Concert 2018 supported by the leading ICT company, MTN Nigeria.

GOVERNORS of Delta, Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra and Bauchi States, yesterday, tasked the media as the fourth estate of the realm to use its power to make the political parties and politicians do the right things for credible general elections in 2019.

It is the opinion of some that Mallam Garba Shehu is still held with suspicion in the inner circle of the cabal around President Muhammadu Buhari. That is despite the fact that he is undoubtedly one of the finest media managers of the fourth republic.

Jos —The Plateau chapter of the PDP has accused the state government of “creating unnecessary tension by insisting on announcing results of local government elections while collation was ongoing”.

EXACTLY 235 days after the Islamic fundamentalists group, Boko Haram abducted 110 schoolgirls from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe State, a Federal Government delegation visited the home of the lone Christian captive, Leah Sharibu yesterday.

In the middle 80s, the then Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, faced with the challenge of communicating and convincing the Nigerian public of the benefits of his economic policies which were tied to the IMF dictates, appointed an acquitted journalist, Prince Tony Momoh, his Information Minister.

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC, now has a au start time National Publicity Secretary. He is Mr Lanre Issa Onilu.

Tragedy struck yesterday as a pipeline belonging to Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, exploded and burnt over 50 persons to death in Aba, Abia State.