NIGER-DELTA peace activist, Mr. Cletus Arerebo, has commended Vanguard Newspapers, Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan and Timipre Sylva of Delta and Bayelsa States respectively for their role in the success the Federal Government has recorded so far in its amnesty programme for militants.

Personally, experience has taught me that adequate funding that will attract the best human and material resources, is a very vital factor. You need good fund to recruit experienced and seasoned teachers, put in place the necessary infrastructure and design a good academic and co-curricular package for a standard secondary scho

Where Senegal, Togo Ghana , Cameroun, Ecowas, etc. must come to trade, no matter the situation of the roads. Before few Africans knew the functions of a bank, who established the first African bank which made it possible for these wandering traders to qualify for soft loans?

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday, said the battle against corruption is facing some principal challenges, one of which, is the political interference.

The Police Officers Wives’ Association (POWA) is worried about the rising number of children of school age in the nation’s police barracks who are currently out of school as well as the non-challant attitude of government to special needs children.

The Presidential Task Force on the World Cup may not know this. The Nigeria Football Federation will not rescind their decision to swim or sink with Shaibu Amodu as head coach of Nigeria’s team to the 2010 World Cup.

NFL’s lawyer had argued that even the title of Anibeze’s column of March 9, 2007, STEALING ADENUGA’S MONEY suggested conviction of theft on the claimants and asked Anibeze to read the part where he made such remarks. But Anibeze pleaded to the court to allow him read from the beginning to enable the court have a clear picture. Justice Taiwo obliged and he, thus, read the opening paragraphs of the said article:

Former African
Footballer of the Year, Victor Ikpeba and two former Chairmen of the Nigeria Football Federation will be the star guests when telecommunication giant, Globacom and Confederation of African Football (CAF) unveil the five leading contenders for the 2009 African Footballer of the Year in Lagos today.

This was after it was confirmed yesterday in Dutse, Jigawa venue of the Annual General Meeting of the NOC that Ndanusa has been with Confederation of African Tennis(CAT)since 2003.

National Security and Civil Defence Corps, yesterday, clinched the men and women 100m gold at the on-going Public Service Games holding at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.