Chelsea joined Manchester City and Liverpool at the Premier League summit on Sunday as Riyad Mahrez blazed a late penalty over the bar when presented with a golden chance to end his team’s Anfield hoodoo.

Teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe insisted that he “should have scored more” despite netting four times in a magnificent individual display as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Lyon on Sunday.

THE general strike on September 27 and 28 over a new National Minimum Wage will, going by antecedence,  be the first of many strikes to come. This strike was not about a new wage per se or  figures; not about  agreement or disagreement, not to talk about implementation. It was merely to demand that the Buhari administration which has an unenviable history of cancelling   promises, returns to the negotiation table. If a general strike had to be called just to pressure government to talk with workers and employers on a New National Minimum Wage in accordance with the constitution, imagine the struggles that will need to be waged to get the new wages implemented across all sectors and levels of government.

THE ruthless apotheosisation of money, wealth, success, fame, greatness and power, etc has stimulated the cacoethes and passion for multidimensional strategies for achieving them. The deification of money and power has ascended the dangerous crescendo where human spare parts, diabolical rivalry, spiritual poisoning, family feud, voodooistic proclivities and cultic magic have become the major ritualistic paraphernalia and in their wake, leaving many people mad, dead, poor, deformed and some as mobile corpses.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, inaugurated a 30 member tripartite Committee on Monday November 27, 2017, to negotiate a new National minimum wage. The Committee comprises six serving State Governors and other members from both the public and private sectors, as well as leaders of organized labour.

SUPER Eagles camp  in Uyo will come alive today as Coach Gernot Rohr is expecting no fewer than 16 players to hit the Akwa Ibom state capital to commence preparations ahead of the crucial 2019 AFCON qualifier against Libya Saturday.

THAT the people perish for  lack of good leadership has been one of the abiding verdicts of history. The Nigerian situation today is proving Horace right. In the last three months, I have found myself in several states, east, north, south and west – Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kogi, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Kaduna, Niger, Edo,Imo, Kwara, Oyo, Ogun, and of course, Lagos. There is a common thread linking all of us in this country today, irrespective of the government and the political party in power – a sense of despair about the economy. We needed no Brookings Institute or World Poverty Watch or the British Prime Minister or Bill Gates Foundation to tell us that our dear fatherland has not only become the largest hatchery of people living in abject poverty, the situation is getting worse every minute. We have thousands of economists to do that for us

By Harris Emmanuel UYO—Eleven  incumbent lawmakers of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly have lost in the Peoples Democratic  Party, PDP, primaries conducted in the state. The new candidates who emerged  to replace their incumbents and local governments include Victor Ekwere (Mkpat Enin), Udeme Atong (Abak), Godwin Ekpo (Ibiono Ibom), Kufre Abasi Edidem (Itu), Charity […]

ABEOKUTA—A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State reportedly died after being allegedly hit by a charm during senatorial, House of Representatives and state House Assembly primaries in the state, yesterday.

Kogi East delegates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) have warned the imposition of Senator Attai Aidoko, whom they described as “Political Liability” on the good People of Kogi East.

OWERRI—ADVANCED Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA, has adopted Brady Nwosu as its governorship candidate in Imo State, after a convention attended by the party’s card carrying members across 295 wards and 27 local government areas of the state.

ABUJA—THE Presidency, yesterday, disowned a letter in circulation that President Muhammadu Buhari had authorised some State governors to discipline party members that are said to be traitors.

Following the victory of the former vice president, Abubakar Atiku at the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Portharcourt, Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku has said his emergence as the party’s flag bearer is a good omen ahead of 2019.

Former Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, has picked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial ticket for the Benue South senatorial zone

THE Group Managing Director/CEO of Polaris Bank Limited, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, has stressed the importance of staff training as the bedrock of a strong banking sector and for institutions building.