DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has advised students of the state origin to shun all forms of violence in their academic pursuit.

A MEDICAL practitioner, Dr. John Akwara, has formally declared his desire to contest the seat of Ethiope Federal Constituency of Delta State in the 2011 House of Representatives election.

No fewer than sixty fishermen, among them women, aged persons and children, yesterday narrowly escaped being roasted alive when a midnight fire gutted the Imkpikiri fishing settlement in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

LAGOS State took yet another giant step in sports when it inaugurated a committee saddled with the responsibility of introducing American football to the state and Nigeria in general.

WORRIED by the declining interest in wrestling in modern age, the people of Uwheru community in Delta State have kicked off a four–day wrestling contest.

If everything works according to plan, the U. J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar will be the next host of the National Mobil Championship for Commonwealth trials.

An ingenious financing scheme designed by FAO to allow African smallholder farmers to make more money is to be scaled up in Niger, where it was pioneered, and extended to Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal.

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has agitated for financial autonomy for local government councils, saying that it is the only way out for the nation’s rapid development.

THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has threatened to sue ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Bunu Sheriff; Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, for the mindless killing of Christians by a Muslim fundamentalist sect —Boko Haram— in parts of the country last year.

The Rivers State government has said the state possessed a huge gas reserve that would last for over 150 years.

The chief driver to Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Joe Frank, has been kidnapped, with N100 million ransom placed on his head by the abductors. [More…] [More…] [More…] [More…]

FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar yesterday stormed the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to formally intimate the party’s National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor of his return to the party.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, rounded-off his five-day working visit to the United States of America, USA, with an appearance as a guest at the Centre for Global Development, CGD, in Washington DC, where he acknowledged the sterling contributions of Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the founding Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Ghana Coach, Herbert Ado, is confident his players would cherish a clash with Nigeria in a dream final of the First WAFU Nations Cup, holding in Ogun State.

The Economic and Finanical Crimes Commission, EFCC, insisted yesterday that it sent an invitation letter to former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, saying he was not declared wanted same day he was invited.