AN unprecedented flood in the history of Akwa Ibom State has swept through Itak Abasi fishing community in Ibeno Local Government Area of the state leaving in its trail six persons dead and 17 others missing.

A MAN, his wife, his three children and his mother were said to be among scores of lives that perished, weekend, in a multiple auto crash that occurred along Lagos-Ibadan Express road.

Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State has said the state will partner with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to establish a refinery.

IN a bid to stamp out kidnapping and other crimes which had in the past almost crippled its activities, Abia State government has commenced registration of repentant kidnappers and criminals.

Facts emerged yesterday that the elections into the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation would go on as scheduled as litigations hitherto filed to stop them have been withdrawn

THE Nigerian Merchant Navy (NMN) has received far less attention than it actually requires both from the government and the Nigerian populace.

CO-ORDINATORS of the Uduaghan Vision, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, support group in Delta State have reaffirmed their commitment to the re-election of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in the 2011 general elections.

Minutes after Heartland fell 1-0 to Ismaily to hit the bottom of their CAF Champions League group, coach Kelechi Emeteole lamented the state of a squad he had built and made the team to beat.

A top taekwondo instructor, Ferguson Oluigbo has called on the minister of sports and chairman of the national Sports Commission, Ibrahim Bio to intensify effort at developing sports from the grassroot level.

A budget advocacy group, the Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group, NDEBUMOG, has raised alarm over alleged plan by the Federal Ministry of Environment to award contradictory contracts for its 2010 capital projects.