Heavy rain has forced the postponement of the men and women's singles final of the 2019 Lagos Open Tennis Championship

Heavy rain has forced the postponement of the men and women's singles final of the 2019 Lagos Open Tennis Championship 
French player of Nigerian origin, Calvin Hemery,  was scheduled to take on Aldin Sektic of Bosnia in the men's singles

And Riya Bhatia of India is to play Nastja Kholar of Slovenia

The two final matches will now come up on Monday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan

I WILL NOT ASSOCIATE WITH ANY IGBO GROUP THAT INSULTS BUHARI – UMAHI

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has said that he would not have anything to do with any Igbo group that castigate or insult President Muhammadu Buhari or any governor in the country.
Umahi made the statement on Friday when the members of the Igbo Leaders of Thought ( ILT)led by Professor Ben Nwabueze, paid him a courtesy call at the Government House in Abakaliki.

Solidarity with the Anambra Family

By C. Don Adinuba
Anambra State has become in the last four years the most peaceful and united state in Nigeria. The level of social harmony is unrivalled. Not even party differences matter to the people and government of Anambra State any more. For instance, when former Vice President Alex Ekwueme was buried in January, 2018, the weeklong funeral rites were led by Governor Willie Obiano. This was in spite of the fact that while Governor Obiano belongs to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Ekwueme was a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In fact, Dr Ekwueme’s first child, Mrs Chidi Onyemelukwe, was the PDP deputy governorship candidate in the November 17, 2017, gubernatorial election which Chief Obiano won overwhelmingly in each of the 21 local government areas in the state. Though the election was held only two days to Dr Ekwueme’s passage, Governor Obiano displayed no bitterness towards the former vice

Update on Kano Escaped Lion Saga

Efforts to capture the missing Kano Zoo Lion has been unsuccessful more than 24 hours since it escaped its enclosure. Authorities had since suspended the search for the animal as night sets in.

TINUBU HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN AWOLOWO, MKO ABIOLA – OGUNLEWE

Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works on Saturday said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the most prominent politician in the South-West who can lead Nigeria well if elected President.
Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Ogunlewe said Tinubu has achieved more than Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Basorun MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12 1993 presidential election.

POLICE PROMOTES FOUR AIGS, TWO CPS TO DIGS, LAGOS CP, OTHERS TO AIGS

Police Service Commission (PSC) on Friday promoted four Assistant Inspectors-General (AIG) of Police and two Commissioners of Police (CPs), to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) after an emergency Plenary Session.

Dependable source at the meeting who disclosed this to Saturday Independent said, the meeting was chaired by PSC chairman, retired Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Musiliu Smith, which started at about 11.30am at the Federal Secretariat Abuja.

TINUBU’LL MAKE A GOOD MODERN NIGERIAN PRESIDENT – BABACHIR LAWAL

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation who was sacked from office, Babachir Lawal, has said Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress is in good standing to become the next president of Nigeria.

He said Tinubu possesses the qualities of a good modern President to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

Babachir, who stated this in Yola, Adamawa State, in an interview with some select journalists, also supported power rotation to the South.

Anambra: Another fire disaster averted

Ejike Anyaduba

Anambra state fire service averted what would have become another disaster too soon.
Another fuel laden truck tumbled somewhere around Bessoy filling station, close to Omagba phase 11 at about 3.am this morning and ignited an inferno.

DPA Requests NASS to conduct public hearing on alleged abuse of Nigerians by police

The Due Process Advocates Foundation (DPA) has asked the National Assembly to conduct holistic public hearing on continuous abuse of prosecutory power by Nigerian Police which was uncovered by Investigation carried out by Fisayo Soyombo.


Fisayo Soyombo is the investigative journalist ‘spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release from prison.

NLC, TUC Minimum wage talks enter day 3 with Labour Ministers

There is no agreement yet between labour and the federal government as negotiations enters the third day.

Negotiations to continue after eight hours of meeting in the early hours of Thursday failed to reach a truce.

Labour and Employment Minister, Chris Ngige, said a sub committee of the negotiating team has been mandated to look through some documents and come up with agreeable figures.