Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has enjoined stakeholders in the nation’s economy to partner with Federal Government and bail out Nigeria from poverty by giving due attention to agricultural sector. Mallam Sanusi, who lamented the state of poverty in the country noted that the growth of the agricultural sector of the economy was imperative because it is the easiest way to address and combat poverty in the country.

Environment Rights Action, ERA, has expressed concern over what it described as the deteriorating security situation in the creeks of Bayelsa State in the wake of the recent upsurge in pirate attacks on the waterways.

THE authorities of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, yesterday, disclosed that a total of 15,662 students of the University will be awarded various certificates, diplomas and various degrees in its 35th and 36th convocation and 40th founder’s day ceremony scheduled for this weekend.

HEAVILY armed soldiers from the Effurun Barracks, Warri, and policemen in three Armoured Personnel Carriers, APCs, yesterday, dispersed thousands of Chief James Onanefe Ibori supporters who gathered at the Sapele Athlantic Club, Sapele, Delta State, to urge the Dubai authority to free the former governor of Delta State.

THE authorities of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, yesterday, disclosed that a total of 15,662 students of the university would be awarded various certificates, diplomas and degrees in its 35th and 36th convocation and 40th founder’s day ceremony scheduled for this weekend.

THE European Union, EU, ambassador to Nigeria, David Macrae, yesterday joined Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, to launch the medium scale water scheme under the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, project at Nnewi and Nimo communities of the state.

MEN of the Delta State police command have smashed a four-man kidnap gang at the Asaba Head Bridge shortly after kidnapping two persons in Asaba andwere about taking them across to the East.

AN Anambra State High Court sitting at Ihiala has ordered the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo, the PDP and Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, who was the chairman of Anambra State Congress Committee of the party not to dissolve the Chief Emma Nwaeze-led state executive which was elected recently.

NIGERIA’S public officials never seem to mind History’s verdict on them. Their occupation of public office and their performance while they remain in such office often appears to them as exercises meant to satisfy the immediate wishes of those responsible for putting them in office in the first instance.

A new militia organization, under the aegis of Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, yesterday, dared the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta over its plan to level down all militant camps in the Niger Delta.

CHAPTER 19 of the Acts, Paul encountered disciples in need of the Ministry of Aquila and Priscilla. The following is Paul’s interrogation of their faith in the Lord:

THE Falcons can easily hold the record for continental dominance in female football. They have won six of the seven titles contested in the African Women’s Championship — losing only one final in 2008 to Equatorial Guinea, the team they dominated in Sunday’s final in South Africa.

IT is almost impossible to ply the Benin-Sagamu highway and not end up with a feeling of regret and bitterness at how much seriousness the government attaches to this vital project, and by implication the welfare of its citizens.

FORMER Minister of Petroleum, Prof Tam David-West, has called on governors of the nine oil producing states to come together to study the Petroleum Industry Bill before it is passed into law.

Nigeria yesterday disagreed with Iran that the issue of shipment of 13 containers of arms intercepted at Apapa port where Iran was accused of complicity has been settled.