SCORES of physically challenged persons barricaded the Government House gate as well as the front of the police headquarters in Asaba yesterday in protest against alleged negligence by the state government.

President, Goodluck Jonathan, has revealed his pain over the disgraceful manner the Eagles crashed out of the World Cup. He stopped short of blaming the players for the calamity, which saw the Eagles take an early bow.

Police in Johannesburg have confirmed replica World Cup trophies have been stolen from FIFA’s temporary headquarters.

The 45th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Distinguish Lecture Series provided the platform for Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Governor of Delta State, to seek credible election in 2011, to avoid Nigeria becoming a laughing stock in the international community.

No fewer than 20 persons are feared dead in a communal clash between the people of Shobbo community in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State and their Dadiya counterparts of Balanga in Gombe State.

SEQUEL to the face-off between him and his party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, has resigned his membership of the party, saying the interest of the people who voted for him into power was no longer protected.

The collapse of a section of LASU-Iba road after a down pour, last week, has been blamed on the Lagos State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the contractor, Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC.

My husband gets a load of kicks from flirting with other women. For the eight years we’ve been married, I’ve watched him chat up women and had countless nights anxiously waiting for him to come home from his night – crawling. Now, after his last affair where his latest girlfriend insulted me to my face in his presence, I’ve decided I can no longer live with him.

THE Federal Government said yesterday that the nation’s industrial sector has been experiencing major set backs since 1970s because they were largely set up on ad-hoc basis without a clearly defined pathway with definite targets and timeliness.

The Ijaw Monitoring Group has described the untimely death of the Vice-President of National Association of Ijaw Female Students, NAIFS, University of Jos Chapter, Miss Ebi Amanah, as a great loss to Ijaw students worldwide and all Niger Delta students in general.

The Supreme Court has fixed July 13, this year for definite hearing in an appeal filed by the incumbent Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Martin Okonta, seeking to review the verdict of the Abuja Court of Appeal which removed him from office.