NIGERIA has stepped up her plans to improved the country's airport network and bring it up to international standards with aviation minister Hadi Sirika leading a team of officials to inspect facilities in Turkey and Brazil with a view to learning from them.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) officials in Osun State have asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate Senator Ademola Adeleke over attempts to voters with money.

NIGERIA'S presidency has issued an official statement on the health status of former military ruler General Abdulsalam Abubakar saying that he is recovering well from his recent treatment and has even been discharged from hospital.

FORMER Niger Delta minister Godsday Orubebe has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in protest of the party's decision to nominate former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.

SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye has begun training with his new English Championship side Watford as the club look set to name him as their first choice goalkeeper following the departure of Ben Foster.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] World War Two is one of my great passions as I could study it non-stop 24/7. It lead to so many innovations and altered the way we live to such an extent that it deserves to be studied 365 days a year 

[2] One of the biggest revelations of the war were the Tuskegee Airmen. Four squadrons of all-black African Americans created to fail by the racist US military high command but alas, they ended the war as the world’s best ever pilots 

HOUSEHOLD of God Church founder Reverend Chris Okotie has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stand down and hand over the running of the country to him for the remainder of his tenure.

CONTROVERSIAL Catholic clergyman Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka has distanced himself from yesterday's protests by his followers outside the Adoration Ministry ground in Enugu as youths took to the streets to oppose his recent suspension from duty.

FORMER Nigerian military ruler General Abdulsalam Abubakar has been flown to the UK for emergency medical treatment after taking ill after suffering what is believed to have been a partial stroke.

PLANS to merge the campaigns of two of Nigeria's leading presidential candidates have hit a rock after the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) declared that its flagbearer Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso would not step down for Peter Obi of the Labour Party.