“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.