Afenifere, Yoruba socio-cultural and political group Tuesday cautioned the Federal Government against accepting military assistance from the United States in solving the Niger/Delta problems as promised during the last visit of the US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton to Nigeria.

By Enyim Enyim Onitsha – Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo has advised the people of Anambra state to embrace the vision 2030 project, AMBRA, enunciated by the League of Anambra State Professionals (LAP) for the development of the state. Soludo gave the advice at a reception organised by LAP for […]

NATIONAL Chairman of Urhobo Political Forum (UPF), Chief Ighoyota Amori, has said the Urhobo were not prepared to play second fiddle in the politics of Delta State.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday, commissioned one of the state’s five drivers’ institutes at Ikorodu Local Government Area, saying with the establishment and commissioning of the centre, the state government is poised to ensure re-certification of motorists in the state.

By Enyim Enyim ONITSHA – The Anambra Police Command has arrested occupants of a house at Neni, Anocha Local Government Area of the state, where the famous Nollywood actor and veteran journalist, Chief Pete Edochie, who was kidnapped penultimate Sunday, was dumped by his kidnappers. Commissioner of the command, Mr Uzor Amakulor dropped the hint […]

An oil firm, Petroleum Products Monitoring Services Limited (PPMSL), has urged the Federal Government to empower the people of the Niger Delta in order to give a human face to the amnesty package offered by the government.

“The state and local governments should be just in the distribution of resources to avoid the type of thing the federal government was accused of. Public officers should render account to their constituencies and the entire state, while people should also fashion out ways of holding public office holders accountable,” he said.

The Women and Children of Hope Foundation has said the global economic meltdown is adversely affecting the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

DELTA State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama (SAN), has lamented ongoing crack down on bank debtors, noting that the affected transactions were not criminal but purely civil that should not warrant the anti-graft agencies to be drafted in.

Nigeria left Berlin without a medal but Patrick Ekeji did with a symbolic one.The Director-General of the National Sports Commission arrived here towards the end of the World Athletics Championship and in his two-day stay he achieved what he hopes could transform to gold medals for Nigeria in big meets.

FEW days after officials of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and its Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) counterpart, rescued a distress Cotonou-bound vessel, M/T Lilliana Carneiro, the Search and Rescue Unit of NIMASA, Tuesday rescued another vessel, a Russian vessel, M.V Targale, following a distress medical call by the crew.

Head Coach of the national U-17 team, Golden Eaglets, John Obuh, has dropped 15 players from the camp of the squad preparing for the 13th FIFA U-17 World Cup finals which Nigeria is hosting from 24th October to 15th November this year.

STRIKING members of the Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in the nation’s universities have said no amount of intimidation or threat of no-work, no-pay can force them to abandon the struggle to make Nigerian universities regain lost glory and once again start producing world class graduates.

All roads will next weekend lead to Abuja, the nation’s capital city for two events, the Verallen Scrabble Classics and the 2010 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.

Tests have revealed Caster Semenya’s testosterone level to be three times higher than those normally expected in a female sample, BBC Sport understands.