A Warri based lawyer, Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, has charged Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to set in motion, the process of liberating the people of the Niger Delta from all repressive laws and obnoxious government policies, including the full implementation of the Niger Delta Technical Report and the Post Amnesty Process.

BAYELSANS who besieged the State House of Assembly over the move to impeach the state Deputy Governor, Mr. Peremobowei Ebebi, yesterday, were disappointed as the lawmakers failed to turn up.

He also added that exhibitors who bring in fake goods to the fair ground would have their goods impounded.
“The Chamber has learnt lessons from the experience in the past years, and these lessons have translated to a fair that have gotten better with each successive year. Let me assure you that the 2010 edition will not be bereft of these benefits” he said.

Eagles players and their officials, including Sani Lulu, the federation president, were yesterday wondering how to pay back the Richard Bay community for the reception given to Nigeria in South Africa.

The son of a serving Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army has been arrested for allegedly swindling members of the public and claiming to be a lawyer attached to Chief Rotimi Williams Chambers .The 40-year old suspect, Alexandra Pedro, until his arrest, specialised in collecting money from unsuspecting members of the public to process military gate pass, which allows the bearer in and out of the barracks.

THE Nigeria Football Association, NFA, is not leaving any stone unturned to ensure that many Nigerians are part of the World Cup in South Africa. It is the first World Cup on African soil and as “Giants” of Africa, the FA wants Nigerians in numbers. To this end, Committees have been formed to accommodate all and sundry in South Africa.

The governor said his administration was resolute in its bid to continue to change the face of Lagos and explained that the decision to use every 100 days to render his account of stewardship was one of the promises he made at the beginning of his administration.

Dr. Olushola Atilola is the immediate past National President of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS). In this interview with Kingsley Adegboye before he handed over to a new helmsman. He bares his mind on his tenure, the GIS system, land reforms among other topical issues. Excerpts:

The UNN Robesonites, the Alumni association of UNN graduates of dramatic arts, is planning a Home Coming in October this year at the department of theatre and film studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

COMMERCIAL vehicle drivers in Benin City, Edo State, yesterday protested the incessant harassment they suffer in the hands of members of the Road Transport Employee Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, over ticket levies.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Maartins-Kuye, has inaugurated a Task Force to support the enforcement of the country’s policy on trade as well as to ensure that all barriers to its implementation were addressed.

The Federal Government has expressed disappointment over the shallow and shoddy manner at which the consultant firm handled the Baro, Lot 5 of Lower River Niger dredging project, lamenting that incoherent activities of the consultant has resulted in the extension of the completion of the project by another five months.

ACTIVITIES at the University of Benin was Wednesday paralysed following the kidnapping of a lecturer of the institution, Dr. Emmanuel Aigbokhan of the Department of Agriculture on Saturday by unknown gunmen.

APM Terminals Nigeria’s biggest terminal operator has so far invested over , about N29 billion in the last four years in upgrading facilities in the Apapa port terminal.

The new Customs Area Controller of Badagry Area Command,Seme Border, Mr. Mohammed Sulaiman Bawa has promised to sustain the ongoing battle against smuggling while assuring that he would work hard to increase government revenue through maximum collection of duties due to it through the Nigerian Customs Service.