Exaggeration is the most common strain of fever at election period. Politicians make voters – and the general public – believe that the world might end on ballot day, when in fact what they are playing for is their own survival.

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday passed a bill to provide a legal and institutional framework for the implementation and management of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in the country.

ABUJA—FORMER Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Wednesday night, to attend the official launch of one of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election support groups, “Together Nigeria.”

THE House of  Representatives, yesterday, moved to change Nigeria’s Presidential system to parliamentary system to save cost of governance, with a bill to that effect scaling first reading.

Leicester City Coach, Claude Puel and midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi have backed struggling Kelechi Iheanacho to overcome the difficulties he currently facing.

Former Arsenal youth player Chuba Akpom says his Gunners Academy teammate, Alex Iwobi is ‘a perfect Arsenal player’

Notable businessman and politician, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume has been one of the more prominent personalities in Imo State and is presently the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in the forthcoming general elections. The former senator in this interview explains his motive among other issues. Excerpts:

Total number of ac tive voice subscriptions in Nigeria telecom services sector has reached an impressive 169 million, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has stated.

Team Lagos has lost the gold medal it won in the cycling event of the 19th National Sports Festival holding in Abuja. According to the race director of the event, Bashir Mohammed, the Local Organising Committee found out that the Lagos cycling officials failed to register their cyclist, Obafemi Smith for the 1000m  Individual Pursuit for men.

Licensing competition between the electricity Generating Companies (GENCOs) Distribution Companies (DISCOs) and Renewable Energy (RE) developers, tax incentives, as well as challenges of expatriate quota have been identified as major obstacles bedeviling the electrification of Nigeria’s rural areas.