DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that Urhobo youths who helped the government to maintain peace during the violent phase of the Niger-Delta struggle would not be relegated in the post-amnesty arrangement by the Federal Government to build youth capacity in the region.

FIRST civilian governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that those who against the resignation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from office on account of his ill-health do not have the interests of the Nigerians at heart.

A few days to the global climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has extracted a commitment from the management of Chevron Oil Company that it would stop gas flaring in all its operational sites in Delta State in the first quarter of 2011.

AS part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), Julius Berger Services Nigeria Limited, Warri, Delta State, yesterday said it spent over N7.2 million in training sixty-six (66) Ijaw and Itsekiri youths in various skills acquisition programmes to foster harmonious working relationship in the state.

ITSEKIRI Regional Develop-ment Committee (IRDC), created by the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture for sustainable development of Itsekiri communities close to the operation areas of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) in Delta State, has successfully completed 45 development projects.

Former Super Eagles number one goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has declared that the Nigerian national team would surprise the world in South Africa.

FEW settings aptly capture the international community’s proclivity for deception than the debates about climate change. Little difference is expected at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change which started in Copenhagen, Denmark yesterday. It runs until December 18.

“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father, and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church” (Ephesians 5:29-32).

THERE’S, perhaps, nothing better than the destiny of a man who has thrust upon him what many struggle, kill or get killed, to get.

Atlanta ‘96 Olympic gold medalist, Kingsley Obiekwu has played down on the chances of the national team at both the African Cup of Nations in Angola and the World Cup in South Africa next year.

The Federal Government is in a fixed on how to generate more non-oil income for next year.
The direct implication is that the noose will be tightened around tax evaders while some concessions are to be withdrawn.

Nigeria’s education leaders met with scores of U.S.-Based Nigerian Educators and other stakeholders on the campus of American University in Washington, DC, for a Summit on “Closing the Education Gaps in Nigeria”, in May, 2009.

I believe I did all I did with sincerity, honesty and love for my friend and was trying to protect her. If we sat at the same table, there was no way my husband would not have discovered the identity of the man, and you can imagine the type of problem we will all be in right now.

The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday denied involvement in any plan to replace President Umaru Yar‘Adua, who is at present receiving medical attention in Saudi Arabia just as the leakage of the alleged letter purportedly written by the President to the National Assembly seeking medical vacation which was not delivered by his aide is causing disquiet in Aso Rock.

THE Anglican Bishop of Lagos Diocese, Most Rev Adebola Ademowo, has said it is the nation’s responsibility to pray for the quick recovery of President Umaru Yar’Adua so that he can resume at his desk.