VICE Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, Professor Bartho Okolo said that the N3.8 billion digital wireless infrastructure project which would be launched by President Goodluck Jonathan during his visit to the university on Thursday (today) would increase economic activities through research and enhance learning environment in the institution.

ADMITTEDLY, when it comes to the spoken and written word, we choose liberal donors. We therefore do not intend to be very economical with our definitions.

Like all dastardly organized inhumanities, the willful injustice had its consequences. Asaba in October 7, found women and children separated from their condemned fathers and brothers.

THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, directed the interim administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Emmanuel Ikazoboh to recover more than N2.6 billion allegedly shared fraudulently by the former management of the Exchange in the past four years.

IMAGINE this! You are an indigent student. Most students are usually not buoyant, but there are some whose cases are different. They are indigent enough that everyone knows their case, no matter how courageously they manage it.

DIRECTOR-General of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Council, Ambassador Dalhatu Tafida, yesterday, asked Adamu Ciroma, leader of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, to retract the impeachment threat on President Goodluck Jonathan saying it is “misplaced.”

A MEMBER of the Delta State Waterways Security Committee, Omolubi Newuwumi, has lambasted security operatives in the country for their failures to look beyond the surface in matters of national security in the wake of the twin bomb, which rocked the independence day celebration in Abuja.

Babangida’s camp was correct to have observed that more use should have been made of the security tip-offs which were received by government and even media people long before the tragedy. But the way they presented it to score political points smacked of low-ball tactics. Some issues must be above politics.

On the part of parents, she decried the neglect of close monitoring of students and follow-up in their respective departments to check the performance of their children, saying, “only a few parents believe that they have any role to play towards seeing their children through.”

The Senate has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, to ensure that it conducted a free and fair election in 2011

Abia State government has directed the state’s judiciary to re-open a pending criminal charge of gun- running preferred against a former Deputy Governor of the state, Chris Akomas, in 2006.

Politicians have been asked to shun bitterness, blackmail and concentrate their energies on providing adequate infrastructure that would enhance the welfare of the people.

Former commis-sioner of Delta State Local Government Service Commission, Mr. Mike Seikegba, has said that there would be no opposition to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bomadi Local Government Area of the state in the forth coming general elections.

The drama surrounding Nigerian football took a new dimension yesterday as the National Association of Nigerian Footballers quietly withdrew the court case it instituted against the Alhaji Aminu Maigari-led board of the Nigeria Football Federation and agreed an out-of-court settlement.

Nigeria’s ‘gold rush’ at the Commonwealth Games gathered steam yesterday, when Joe Effionayi Agbonabvare won a second gold medal for the country in the Greco_Roman wrestling event.