DR Emmanuel Uduaghan was refereeing a novelty football match between the Protocol department and the Press Unit of Government House in the Government House complex on Tuesday evening when news of the invalidation of the election that brought him to office as governor reached him.

The police in Plateau State said it is disturbed by the continuous arms build-up in the state despite spirited efforts to get citizens to surrender arms in their possession to the command.

The United States,US, government has alerted civil authorities, including the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, of structural defects suffered by ageing aircraft and has given manufacturers and carriers in America deadlines to intensify and streamline inspection of metallic skeleton and skin which cause fatigue to airplanes.

Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State and Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi West) are up again in battle against each other over the siting of the proposed federal university meant for the North-Central zone.

Edo State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a West African firm, Azura Power Ltd, with a view to building a 450MW Independent Power Plant, IPP, in the state.

THE Senator representing Edo South senatorial district of Edo State in the Senate, Senator Ehigie Uzamere, and a chieftain of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state, Dr Festus Imuetinya, weekend, described the infrastructural developments witnessed in the state since the two years of administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as magical.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has assured business community and investors in the state of his government’s determination to consolidate and harmonise tax administration aimed at addressing multiplicity of taxes.

AS part of moves to address the influx of fake products into the country, the Federal Government disclosed weekend that arrangements had been concluded for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese manufacturers on the standardization of goods produced in China.

To ensure a hitch-free compilation of fresh voters’ list in Lagos, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, has said that 8,465 Direct Date Capture machines are needed for the exercise.

Nigeria’s Super Falcons re-claimed the African Women’s Champion-ship with a 4-2 victory over Equatorial Guinea Sunday at the Sinama Stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has condemned last weekend’s bombing of the Bayelsa home of Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe.

GOV-ERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has warned that if the much talked about electoral reforms failed to come into fruition before the 2011 general elections, Nigerians would mobilise to resist any attempt to rig the elections by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Director of Customs, Immigration, Prisons Pensions Office, CIPPO, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, yesterday, said three committees had been set up to address the issue of surcharged pensions for paramilitary retirees since 1976.

Wife of Bayelsa State governor, Mrs. Alanyingi Sylva, weekend, advocated the inclusion of vaccination against pneumonia in the National Immunization Programme, NIP, in order to achieve a reduction in the number of deaths resulting from pneumonia in children under the age of five

The ethics committee of the world soccer’s governing body, FIFA will today begin a three-day hearing to determine whether two voters and at least two candidates should be barred from the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests for alleged corruption.