The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, yesterday declared that his presidential ambition is still very much intact, in spite of the fact that the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) had zoned the ticket to the North.

If there was one good news that broke with the new year, it was that of the stabilization of the President’s son from his near fatal accident. The preceding week must have been an anxious one for the President’s family. As a human being who believes that the death of one diminishes all, I feel for the President. As a parent who has raised a son through university with all that it entails, and I am not speaking of finance now, I empathise with him.

The organised labour, yesterday, called on the police to arrest the Special Assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Public Affairs for allegedly leading the suspected thugs that attacked workers during the protest rally organized by the leadership of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Thursday.

When a Chibok Girl, Salomi Pogu,  was found in the company of another girl and a baby this week, there was no rolling out of drums in celebration of their finding. No euphoria, no excitement, no celebrations.

‘Teenagers  who smoke cannabis for just three years could be damaging their long-term memory, researchers have warned. Participants in a study who used the drug daily for around three years in their teens had an abnormally shaped hippocrampus—a region of the brain vital to memory by the time they were in their early 20s, they also performed around 18 per cent worse in long-term memory tests than individuals who had never touched the drug.