By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — THE Bauchi State Director of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Adamu Ningi, says the agency is embarking on core values campaign in the country as it seems that Nigerians have forgotten core value systems. Speaking in Bauchi, Ningi said that events in the country clearly indicated that people had deviated from […]

THE Rotary Club of Warri, District 9140, has pledged to donate N50,000 monthly for one year for the upkeep of a set of triplets born to the family of an impoverished couple, Mr. and Mrs. Lucky Ebhodje, in Warri, Delta State.

THE MEM-BER representing Ika North East constituency in Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Sam Obi, said more funds will be injected into Delta State Micro Credit Programme (DCMP), to boost its contribution to poverty alleviation in the state.

Members of the Golden Eaglets stand to earn an improved sum of $750, per person, if they beat New Zealand in the second round fixture of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup at the Abuja National Stadium.

A group, Niger Delta PeaceMandate, has commended President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua over the amnesty that was recently granted to militants in the Niger Delta . It also offered a recipe to the region’s crisis.

THE United Deltan Forum (UDF) has described as a huge benefit to Delta State, Federal Government’s granting of an Export Processing Zone license to Koko Port.

SPORTS Minister, Sani Ndanusa, ended speculations over his interest to become President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, when he collected, filled and returned the form at the secretariat of the NOC in Lagos yesterday.

New Zealand coach, Steve Cain, has said that Nigeria ’s Golden Eaglets would not have an easy ride to victory when both sides clash in tomorrow’s second round fixture of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup at the Abuja National Stadium.

The Police in Enugu have confirmed the arrest of six persons in connection with the illegal sale of match tickets procured by Governor Sullivan Chime for free distribution to spectators in the state as part of efforts to encourage the participation of the people in the on-going Under-17 World Cup tournament.

Kenyan assistant sports minister, Kabando-wa-Kabando, has predicted 5-0 bashing of the Green Eagles by the Harambee Stars in the final phase of 2010 World Cup qualifier.

TO facilitate government’s efforts to actualizing the Vision 20: 2020, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba recently launched new ultra modern telemedicine equipment to improve the qaulity of health care.

DRIVING along the ever-busy Bank Anthony Way, in Ikeja, one will not fail to notice the campaign banner stretched through the length of the road. One’s curiosity is immediately aroused by the campaign message: “Lagos Own the Game”.

Nigerian Police in collaboration with Pinnacle Insurance Brokers Limited has concluded arrangement for a dialogue to identify probable targets of terrorism with the aim of exploring grey areas and proffering solutions on counter measures.

The Managing Director of Capital Express Assurance Limited, a frontline player in the life insurance sector, Mr. Anthony Aletor, has said that the company no longer celebrates payment of claims as this is one of the major reasons why an insurance company exists to do business. This was disclosed while fielding questions during a media chat in his Victoria Island, Lagos office recently.

Expectations that the reinsurance market will harden for the 2010 renewals is fizzling out. Quiet catastrophe season, improved finances, an improved investment environment, and less demand by primary insurers mean reinsurance prices will be flat to slightly lower levels for January renewals, many observers say.