One of the projects set aside for my tenure is the gift of sight. My executives and I have decided to conduct a free eye screening exercise and then provide free glasses to those who will need them. We will also do a campaign on breast and cervical cancer awareness because it has been discovered that early diagnosis is the sole remedy to breast cancer.

In a scary event which paralyzed the ancient city, all the Chief priest in the Kingdom, market women both old and young, traditional worshippers, herbalists, invoked the wrath of the gods as instructed by the Oba after which they went round all the exit roads to the city to lay curses. Saturday Vanguard gathered such an event has not been done in the city for over 40 years.

The Ministerial Task Force, recently inaugurated by the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, to degongest the Ports, has uncovered large – scale irregularities, especially in the collection of unauthorized charges in all the terminals it has so far visited.

The Chairman of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission, Chief Anthony Egobueze, has been assassinated by unidentified assailants.

A Yenagoa High Court presided over by Justice Naye Aganaba yesterday adjourned to June 18, 2010, hearing in the case instituted against the Bayelsa State House of Assembly by the embattled deputy governor Peremobowei Ebebi.

To put an end to activities of fakers of its regulated products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has reviewed its anti-counterfeiting strategies with the official introduction of Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) and an RFID system that cannot be duplicated or copied across the country.

Lagerback and Maradona
Their coach is better now, I am told. Employed with very shallow managerial experience in 2008, the team that suffered shaky match days has found places in the cold for their initial worries and announced its readiness for Nigeria and the rest of the opposition they will face in World Cup 2010 with a comprehensive 5-0 whitewash of Canada in their last friendly. Conversely, our coach is just celebrating his third week of work with his boys!

Asked how many times he indulged in such horrible act, he could not mention the number of times. Also asked how he succeeded in carrying it out considering the fact that he lives in a public compound otherwise known as face-me-I -face you, he revealed, “ I usually do it on Sundays but not every Sunday . I am a mechanic and I have my workshop at Agboju.

The opening game between South Africa and Mexico ended in a 1-1 draw but not without both teams showing their might and mastery of the round leather game and that they are not push over, mostly for the South African who looked like they would like to host and win.

According to the producer, the Academy will contribute to the transformation, development and growth of Nigerian and African movie industry, by offering first class training to students who would go on to produce excellent films that would place Nollywood at a par with the international community.