ORDINARILY, one would have expected Bayelsa State’s swimmers and wrestlers to clear all available gold medals at the recently concluded 17th National Sports Festival (NSF) held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, but alas, the reverse was the case.

FOR over a year now, Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, has lived under the burden of an alleged contract scandal, involving the multi-billion Delta State Independent Power Project, IPP, at Oghareki, country home of the former governor of the state, Chief James Ibori in Ethiope West Local Government Area, by Davnotch Nigeria Limited, which he had substantial interest in, until June, this year, when he divested his interest following his election as Mr. Speaker.

Former Super Eagles player Thompson Oliha is happy with the combination of coaches chosen by the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF to coach the Under-17 team but said among the trio of Garba Manu, Emmanuel Amuneke and Nduka Ugbade chosen by the NFF, Ugbade should be made the head coach of the team following his wealth of experience in the game.

Hard time awaits Nigerian bakeries, particularly producers of unlabelled bread, a.k.a. ‘Agege’ as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday vowed to clampdown on any bakery using the banned carcinogenic substance, potassium bromate.

Dare-devil armed robbers yesterday attacked a bullion van conveying a huge sum of money from Enugu to an Nsukka branch of a commercial bank carting away the money and killing two policemen escorting the van.