Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State has assured all serving members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in the state of maximum security as they move into the hinterland for their primary assignments.

ARMED robbers, yesterday, went on rampage in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, killing a Police Corporal attached to the Ozoro Police Division.

There is a United Nation, UN convention against corruption to which Nigeria is a signatory and to that extent, it is duty bound to apply the international law. Corruption is illegal under the international law.

The African Diaspora Initiative (ADI) says Nigeria will recover a whopping $400 billion looted public funds if the Federal Government grants unconditional amnesty to present and former government officials willing to repatriate such funds from foreign countries.

The Senate yesterday dissolved the Christopher Anyanwu-led Committee on Communications on the basis of non performance. This is even as it clears the former Senior Vice President of MTS First Wireless, Engr Eugene Ikemefuna Juwa as the substantive Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.

Senate President, David Mark who ordered the immediate dissolution of the Committee said it was following

For the second time in as many weeks, the All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, again postponed its National Convention slated to begin in Abuja tomorrow amidst growing controversy over the alleged zoning of the chairmanship position of the party to the South-East.

I was not moved when we crashed out of the World Cup. I never expected wonders from the team. I had prepared my mind for the worst. I saw disaster coming but I never knew it was going to be that bad – that a team would lose two matches and still had a chance to qualify if they won one against a country like South Korea and still failed!

THE Delta State House of Assembly, yesterday elected Mr Sam Obi, representing Ika North East constituency, as the new Speaker.

The Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, says it has cleaned up and remedied 2,000 oil spill sites within the Niger Delta region, between 1999 and June 2010.

BASIL RISBRIDGE Davidson is not the saint- like hero that Ernesto Che Guevera conjures. He was not a Tarzan swinging through the African jungles, neither was he a missionary of some foreign religion who evangelised the continent at the cost of its land, culture, blood and wealth.