IJAW Peoples Con-gress, IPC, has called on the Federal Government to create a Federal Waterways Safety Commission to accommodate ex-militants, saying that it would complement other post-amnesty programmes.

ABUJA — The chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Lee Maeba has lauded the signing into law of the Nigeria Content Bill by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan saying that it is a giant step towards ending the dominance of expatriates in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

Lars Lagerback’s planned introductory meeting with his squad will now hold in Abuja next month following the refusal of European clubs to release players for this week.The Nigeria coach has yet to meet with his team with just over two months to the World Cup and had plannedthe London gathering to speak with his players.

ERSTWHILE Secretary of the Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Sani Ahmed Toro, has accused the Sani Lulu-led board of the FA of seeking personal glory over Nigeria’s interest.

The minister of sports and chairman of the National Sports Commission Honourable Ibrahim Isa Bio yesterday promised to ensure that Anti Doping Laboratory at the National Stadium, Abuja is functioning soon.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has urged theNigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) to bid for the hosting right of the 2011 African Junior Tennis Championship at the newly constructed National Tennis Centre in Abuja, equipped with no fewer than 17 courts.

For every aviation minister that is appointed to superintend the sector in the country, the appointee appears not to have assumed office until an inspection tour of the nation’s airport flagship, the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, is undertaken.

Experts disagree over how to measure the dispersal of volcanic ash and who should decide when it is safe to fly, as millions of passengers remain grounded and revenue losses top USD$1 billion due to the Icelandic ash crisis.

NO fewer than four persons died with several others injured, yesterday, when a two-storey building collapsed at Oshodi.

Dana Air has bagged the West Africa’s Branding Merit Award for Aviation Service Excellence at the West African Branding Excellence Awards 2010 held in Lagos.

South African Airways Cargo (SAAC) has put in place a new generation integrated web-based system which will bring it up to date with technological developments within the cargo environment.

As the global community reaffirms its commitment to the achievement of a malaria free world with the celebration of the World Malaria Day, Standard Chartered Bank has reaffirmed its partnership with NetsforLife and some other organizations towards ensuring that the cases and effect of malaria is maximally put under control in Nigeria and other sub-saharan African states.

Activists for Good Governance, a non-governmental organisation, has concluded plans to drag the 11 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State House of Assembly to court over alleged refusal to attend sittings in the past two months, following the controversial removal of the former Speaker, Zakawanu Garuba.

As part of activities commemorating the World Malaria Day, Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of the Standard Bank Group, is collaborating with Friends of the Global Fund Africa to galvanize current and ex-Nigerian footballers, non-governmental organizations, the media, the public and private sectors to rally around efforts in kicking malaria out of Nigeria.

Lending their voices, Engineer John Okorido, Engineer Noble Egharevba and former vice President of the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers, Engineer Martins Ejemai condemned in strong terms the incident, stressing that the job at the site was purely unprofessional and unacceptable.