Lagos – The unimpressive run of Bendel Insurance FC of Benin in the ongoing National Division One League has been blamed on the five-month salary arrears owed players and club officials.

VETERAN journalists in Edo state have appealed to the state government to declare Friday February 4, 2011 as public holiday in honour of the elder statesman, late Chief Anthony Enahoro who would be buried next weekend.

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) weekend said its men intercepted a total of 195.92kg of drugs last year in different parts of the state with 103 suspects arrested.

Among the impounded drugs were 82.3grms of cocaine, 39 sachets of psychotropic substance and 8.3kg [...]

THE Delta Central PDP rerun primaries, yesterday ended in fiasco, following the invasion of the Ughelli township stadium venue of the exercise by armed youths suspected to be supporters of one of the contenders.

The chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, and the outgoing governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket for Kwara Central Senatorial District.

The decision of Governor Bukola Saraki to take the PDP Kwara Central Senatorial District ticket from its winner, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, to enable him (Bukola Saraki) contest and replace his sister at the Senate has attracted a strong condemnation by a group, Kwara Partiots Forum.

The remains of the late Vanguard newspapers sports correspondent, Mr. Richard Animam, were yesterday laid to rest at the Missionary Cemetery, Kobape Road, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation in Ondo State weekend gave an assurance that President Goodluck Jonathan would win the South West states during the April general election.

AS sectarian killings continued in Plateau and Borno states, creating fears in Christians in other parts of the North, the national vice president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in charge of South West zone, Bishop Wale Oke has appealed to Christians in northern parts of the country to resist the temptation for reprisal in retaliation for the several violent attacks against them.