On August 17, 2009, I sent in the following diary material from Berlin where I was covering the World Athletics Championships:Avinoam Porot is in his 60s. He is an Israeli journalist who would always remind you that he is from a beautiful country.

She may not have a single album to her credit, after a decade of sojourning in the music scene. But Aituaje Iruobe a.k.a. Waje is a name that cannot be ignored.

Minister of Power, Arc. Nuhu Somo Wya, said Thursday that the administration had achieved far more in power generation, transmission and distribution than any previous government in the history of the country.

A Lagos-based firm, Technocrat Consult and IT Systems Limited, last wednesday dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging the legality of the award of contract for supply of the Direct Data Capture machines to three firms without its consent.

INDICATIONS have emerged that the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, will from the first week next month (December 2010) take the first practical step towards the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by advertising for an expression of interest by core investors in the company.

SOME time in 1985, when the debate about the ban of some New Nigerian players from the Eagles was raging, it was difficult to get a player, especially in the central defence which Stephen Keshi was dominating. Keshi was one of those banned.

Medical doctors in Lagos public hospitals, under the aegis of Medical Guild, are to meet today at the Malaria Research Centre of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja to review the “mutual agreement” they had with the state government as a basis for the suspension of their 14 week old strik

ONDO State Government yesterday expressed dismay over the refusal of entry Visas to Madrid by the Spanish Embassy in Nigeria to its officials.

PROMINENT Delta leader and politician, Prof Benedict Ijeomah, took Niger Delta elder, Chief Edwin Clark and Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, to the cleaners, yesterday, saying he and other elders of the state had challenged them in the past to substantiate their allegations of fraud against the former Governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, but they failed.

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, disclosed yesterday that over 450 kidnapping kingpins have been arrested by the Special Task Force put in place and headed by the General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Enugu, to flush out kidnappers in the South East.

The arguments in favour of ‘zoning‘ as a special creation of the ruling party (PDP) for equitable distribution of power and all that goes with it (wealth) among their members have been faulted in many quarters.

NOBOBY in the United States (US) can ask, Sarah who? Sarah Palin of course! With the former sports caster and half term governor of Alaska, the American presidential elections in 2012 promises to be a ball.

TWO policemen were macheted in Kpean community, Khana Local Government Area in Ogoni area, Rivers State, yesterday, a situation that caused mobile policemen to storm the community in search of those behind the act.

FOMER military Governor of the defunct Midwest region, Major-General David Ejoor (rtd.), said Wednesday, that he was not part of the newly formed Delta State Peoples Elders Council, DSPEC, reported to have differed fundamentally on principles with some of the positions already taken by the Delta Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum, DELSF, led by Chief Edwin Clark on the affairs of the state

LEADER-SHIP of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Delta State, has vowed to resist any attempt to usurp their powers as 2011 elections approach.