Sprint superstar Usain Bolt looks set to make his first start as a professional footballer Friday, a challenge he said could determine if he has a future in the sport of his boyhood dreams.

SOME leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, expressed worry over the state of the country after 58 years of independence.

Cement manufacturers are moving into hinterlands with the introduction of aggressive distribution  network into remote areas in a bid to expand their market share.

The Federal government has released N460 billion capital budget to date. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udoma, gave the figure in an an interview on the sidelines on the on-going International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World bank Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia.

THE judge’s absence has caused the Industrial Court in Kaduna to adjourn hearing in the case instituted by the 4,042 sacked local government councils workers in Kaduna State seeking their reinstatement.

The Nigerian digital economy appears to be growing from strength to strength despite problem of infrastructure deficit. In fact, it is expected to generate up to $88 billion and three billion jobs for Nigerians before the end of 2021, if the statistics given by the Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Companies of Nigeria, ALTON, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, is anything to rely upon.

ABUJA—Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed October 23 to hear a suit seeking to invoke an order of mandamus to compel Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, for allegedly diverting public funds to his personal use.

•Truce good for the nation, says Chekwas Okorie, CISLAC •As Saraki reads 17 letters from Buhari •Buhari requests N346bn budget for NDDC By Emmanuel Aziken and Henry Umoru ABUJA — Anxiety over a showdown along party lines between All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senators on the resumption of the Senate yesterday, […]

Uyo—Akwa Ibom State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cautioned a former governor of the state, Senator Godswill Akpabio and his media handlers against publishing stories deliberately to disrespect the party and its prominent chieftains.

Rights Activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to prevail on the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to cancel the senatorial primaries of the APC in Delta South Senatorial District.

NO fewer than 420 militants, kidnappers and cult members who had been terrorising communities in Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun Local Goverment areas of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, embraced the amnesty programme offered by the government and surrendered their weapons to the amnesty committee made up of heads of security agencies in the state

ABUJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has warned political parties and their presidential candidates for the 2019 elections against publicly campaigning before November 18.

Stakeholders at a conference, yesterday, demanded the setting up of a Federal Peace and Conflict Resolution Commission to address the prevalent farmers-herders crisis in the country.

Hundreds of passengers are reportedly stranded at the domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2(MMA2) on Wednesday, as aviation unions carried out their shutdown threat over the sack of workers by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited.

A group in Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State, known as “Nsukka Zonal Strategic Group (NZSG)”, has unanimously endorsed Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for a second term in office, resolving to join hands with other people of the state to ensure the governor’s success in the forthcoming 2019 elections