The Council also challenged the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) to follow the line of the transparency and accountability of Yar’Adua administration to publish the details of its activities from inception, showing who had been trained and their places of origin against the backdrop of allegations that the PTDF had trained far less Niger Deltans than others in a deliberate intent to favour others against them.

By Kingsley Omonobi
ABUJA — Ex-MASSOB Commander and leader of a dreaded 29-man gang of kidnappers and robbers who have terrorized the South East for over two and half years, Innocent Orji, alias ‘B’ stone General’, was yesterday paraded by the
Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro in Abuja.
Orji confessed that one of the two Chinese nationals [...]

He noted that the decisions of the state government on fiscal policies and development projects were based on the need of the people, stressing that the trivial outburst of some critics should not be an excuse to reprimand the present administration.

The secretary-general of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Bolaji Ojo-Oba, has announced that the country will not play a warm-up game before their World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in Abuja on September 6. Nigeria were on line for a friendly against Argentina before the Tunisia match in Abuja.

Chairman of Delta State Sports Commission, Amaju Pinnick, went into celebration yesterday when world football governing body, FIFA, officially announced Warri and Kaduna as venues for the U-17 World Cup that Nigeria will host this October.

By Dayo Benson, Political Editor, Demola Akinyemi & Gbenga Ariyibi
ILORIN — THE Action Congress (AC) senatorial candidate in Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the last election, Mr Ola Festus Bode, was yesterday declared the winner by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin.
Mr Bode is to replace the incumbent senator, Mr Adefemi Kila of the [...]

The embattled monarch said that six of the 11 villages that formerly made up Oporomor Kingdom before they seceded to form Egrangbene Kingdom are from one descendant and speak a different Ijaw dialect which distinguishes them from the others, noting that they were unique and from Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South-West Council Area of the state.

By Emma Amaize
WARRI—A group of armed robbers who hijacked a Toyota Hiace bus belonging to Igbinedion Universtiy, Okada in Edo State and were busy robbing passengers on Eku-Abraka Road in Delta State were forced to abandon their loot and flee for their dear lives following an exchange of gunfire with the men of the Joint [...]

The workshop is billed to be chaired by Senator Folasade Bent, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, while Director General of the National Oil Spill Detection and Remediation Agency (NOSDRA), Dr. Bamidele Ajakaiye, would present a lead paper.

Nwankwo Kanu has assured Portsmouth supporters that he will not be leaving Fratton Park at the end of his contract as he is close to agreeing a new deal.