Minister for Information and Communications Professor Dora Akunyili has urged the House of Representatives Committee on information to start investigations into the alleged inflation of contract for the provision of Outside Broadcasting Vans meant for the use of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) during the FIFA U/17 World Cup hosted by Nigeria last year.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has given reasons why the popular Watt Market in Calabar South Local Government Area and Ika-Ika Oqua Market in Calabar Municipal council are to be relocated.

AHEAD of the threat by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to shake up his cabinet, members of the Delta State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have began to lobby for the consideration of their members for appointment.

SEVEN of the 10 opposition lawmakers in the Ondo State House of Assembly who have been boycotting legislative proceedings in the past two months in protest of the impeachment of the former Speaker, Taofiq Abdusalam have resumed following threat to declare their seats vacant by the new leadership of the Assembly.

WORKERS of Delta State Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, yesterday made good their threat to begin an definite industrial action to force government to adopt and implement the Consolidated Tertiary Educational Institutions Salary Structure, CONTEDISS.

Authorities of Ekiti State police command has arrested a police officer who tortured a female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Miss Abigial Ige on Monday.

THE Ogun State Government Thursday reacted to the arrest and detention of its Director-General in the Bureau of Lands, Mr. Gbenga Ogunoiki by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, saying there was no N30 billion fraud in the State.

Nigeria Football Association, NFA, has expressed interest in extending the contract of Swede coach, Lars Lagerback, after the expiration of his contract in July.

THERE was tension in the North, Thursday, following a directive by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation to the Federal Government’s inter_agency panel to drop the names of five of the indicted persons in the $180million Halliburton bribery scandal and prosecute only three of the indicted persons due to “pressure from above.”

ONE thing that pains me badly is how forgetful we are. The other is our complex over white skin which I made an issue before they signed foreign coach to replace Amodu Shaibu.

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in Kefii, Nasarawa State, Thursday, arrested three Camerounians allegedly operating a quack maternity clinic where fake and unregistered Chinese medicines were being illegally dispensed.

FIFA and CAF Executive committee member, Dr. AmosAdamu, has denied visiting FIFA President, Sepp Blatter with Sports Minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio, with a view to reforming Nigerian football. Bio met Blatter on Wednesday in Johannesburg.

Eagles top players and Nigeria Football Federation officials have been locked in discussions on when they will paid their share of the World Cup qualification bonus totaling 1m dollars (about N150m).

No reasonable Nigerian can at this time pretend to be in any doubt about the fact that arrangements are in top gear to amend or to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, will next month, in Ibadan, Oyo State, elect its national officers, to run the
affairs of the association for the next two years. Unlike in 2008, when the President of the association emerged without a formal contest, two prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama and Mr Joseph Daudu, are slugging it out for the position, which had been zoned to the North.