Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, has been described as a veritable ingredient of budgeting for any government to achieve its expected goals.

THE new Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Mamman Tsafe, has expressed worry over the rising rate of crime in the state, warning his officers to sit up in facing the challenge or be shown the way out.

Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has threatened to dock parties in the suit filed by Prince Oluowo Adeyeri, a People Democratic Party, PDP, member who is challenging the declaration of Dr. Ade Dosunmu as Lagos State PDP governorship candidate, if they (parties) do anything to jeopardise the substantive suit.

The Etsu Nupe and Chairman of Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has been appointed as the Chairman Niger State Inter-Religious Council by Governor Babangida Aliyu, who warned perpetrators of religious violence to pitch their tents outside Niger State.

A close friend has just been diagonised with ovarian cancer. We’re all devastated as she had no serious symptoms. Yet it is believed that when caught early, the disease is treatable. My friends and I are eager to know what to do to prevent having it.

Benue State Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Comrade Abba Yaro, and Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Okpe Andrew Onoja, have narrowly escaped death after being attacked and shot at by unknown gunmen in Makurdi.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, has signed into law N146.2billion for the 2011 fiscal year.

SENATOR Annie Okonkwo, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Accord Party, AP, during the flag off of his campaign in Awka yesterday, said his desire to return to the senate was to enable him complete projects he already began, including the creation of a state out of the South East, the issue of erosion control in the zone, as well as improvement of infrastructure and empowerment of youths in the senatorial zone.

There was pandemonium, Wednesday , at Kirikiri Town, a suburb of Lagos State, when fire gutted an oil tanker belonging to one of the major oil firms operating in the area, Techno Oil.

President Goodluck Jonathan, has promised to build a Nigeria where everywhere will be home for every Nigerian citizen, irrespective of tribe, religion or state of origin if he was voted into power during April elections.

The Federal Government, yesterday, threw its weight behind growing worldwide condemnation of the Libyan Government over the use of “unrestrained force” to suppress the mass protest currently going on in the country.

British Airways has appointed Kola Olayinka as first indigenous Country Manager in its over 70 years of operation in Nigeria.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Eastern Zone, has passionately appealed to the federal government to make the Port Harcourt and Calabar ports functional to reduce the hardship manufacturers and other private sector operators faced in the zone.

West African Football Union, WAFU Chiefs are set to elect a new president following the suspension of Nigeria’s Amos Adamu by FIFA over corruption charges for which he was found guilty. But Adamu is still pleading innocence.

THREE members of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Ebonyi State, including an aide to a senatorial candidate of the party have sustained bullet injuries in an attack allegedly executed by some thugs suspected to be loyalists of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.