DELTA Central Senatorial candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, Chief Pius Ewherido, has vowed to sponsor legislation that would revamp the ailing Delta Steel Company, DSC, Ovwian-Aladja,

SEPP Blatter insists he is ready to step down as FIFA president — but not for FOUR YEARS!
The Swiss supremo faces the first real challenge to his leadership since he took over 13 years ago.

All invited 15 foreign-based players on Tuesday morning stormed the ancient city of Benin, ahead of Saturday’s 2012 Olympic Games qualifying match between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.

Anambra State government yesterday banned political campaigns and rallies in the 42 markets and all motor parks in the state, following last Monday’s clash by some political parties in Awka and Onitsha.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial district of Ebonyi State, Darlington Okereke, yesterday accused some prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state of plotting to assassinate him before next month’s elections.

Libyan rebel forces are praising the courage of an air force pilot said to have undertaken a ‘kamikaze’ mission on the Gaddafi compound which claimed the life of the dictator’s son.

The Federal Government has signed a N2.6billion contract for the construction of Adada River dam in Enugu State.

Three persons were reportedly killed, just as two reporters, Emmanuel Igwe of National Issue and Advocate Newspapers’ Uchenna Inya, last weekend, escaped death, when two kindred of Izzi Clan in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State clashed during a political rally in the state.

Chairman, Lagos State Micro-Finance Institution (LASMI), Bashorun Sikiru Alabi-Macfoy says Micro-Finance Banks (MFBs) in the country are key to eradicating poverty in the society.

The Special Task Force, STF, maintaining security in Plateau State has arrested three people for being in possession of bomb making equipment days after foiled bomb attempts in parts of the state.

THE Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) said that the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) since its establishment in the past seven years has convicted over 600 persons and confiscated properties worth 9 billion US Dollars.

Eleven days to the general elections, the State Security Service, SSS in Enugu State has stormed an illegal arms manufacturing factory at Agbada villagein Nenwe Community of Aninri Local Government Area recovering over 100 dangerous weapons of different categories.

NIGERIA’S premier indigenous engineering company with the strategic vision of providing basic/detailed engineering services, National Engineering and Technical Company, NETCO has announced a record turnover of N5 billion for the year-ended 2010, just as deepwater production in West Africa is said to have risen to as high as 2.5 million barrels of oil per day away from 85,000 barrels of daily oil production in year 2000.

Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers has inaugurated the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency(NESREA) office in Port Harcourt.

Alhaji Nojeem Awodele, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, on Monday reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to support farmers through the Fadama programme.