An international organisation, Medicines Sans Frontieres, has donated N120 million, drugs and other first aid materials to the Zamfara Government to assist victims of lead poisoning in the state.

Former President Olusegun Obansanjo will visit the Niger Delta as part of his effort to ensure peace in the region.

Eleven persons, including two foreigners yesterday appeared before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly adulterating bags of cement with sand.

His initial stand on the team was that the Super Eagles have not been well prepared for the 2010 World Cup but that music has changed as former boss of Shooting Stars Football Club, Elder Bode Oyewole now believes they will go beyond the country’s expectation.

RAFAEL Marquez denied South Africa a dream start to their FIFA World Cupâ„¢ with a late equaliser for Mexico in a 1-1 draw in an absorbing Opening Match at Soccer City.

Brigadier-General Emmanuel Okaro has pointed to the defence of the Super Eagles as the Achilles heel that could stop the team from excelling in the ongoing 2010 FIFA World Cup holding in South Africa.

Are you a Nigerian still planning to join the party in South Africa for the World Cup, you would find this information helpful.

The 32nd edition of the annual Central Bank Senior Men and Women Open Tennis Championship ended in Lagos penultimate Saturday with last year’s runner-up, Sunday Emmanuel emerging as the Men’s singles champion.

The Chief Executive Officer of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, Dr Danny Jordaan, has hailed “the incredible atmosphere and spectacular football” in the historic tournament’s opening match played in front of 84 490 fans at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.

ON April 6, 2010, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan, then Acting President of Nigeria, swore in 38 Ministers after being cleared by the National Assembly. Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke then became the first female to occupy the petroleum ministry.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), zone A, Lagos , has recorded 700 seizures with total Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N473million within five months of operation. The Command has also arrested 50 suspects caught with smuggled items for what it described as economic sabotage and criminal activities.

Nigeria’s domestic shipping sector contributes a meagre 0.05 percent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) whereas a country like Greece gives significant contribution of about 4.5 per cent to its economy from the shipping sector; employing 4 per cent of that country’s workforce”.

The Senate Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the Transport sector from 1999 has commended the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, for providing facility that enables the Agency monitor all vessels on Nigerian waters.

Gold is without doubt one of the most popular and well-known metals in the world. It’s value and special properties have remained in the upper threshold of classifications from the earliest of times. Gold in its natural mineral form almost always contains traces of silver, and may also contain traces of copper and iron. A significant portion of the gold is mined from gold ore rather than actual gold specimens.

Two infants, their mothers and seven other people have been confirmed dead in a motor accident on the Numan –Gombe road.