Nigeria’s preparations for the 10th All-Africa Games scheduled for Sept. 3 to Sept. 18 in Maputo, Mozambique, is on course, Sports Minister Taoheed Adedoja has said.

The Federal Government is targeting N25 billion as annual revenue from lottery operators in the country, the Minister of Special Duties, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, said in Abuja.

AFTER several years of delay, the Senate, yesterday, began the final process for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill amid allegations that the final copy of the bill has been watered down by the Senate Committee on Information which worked on it.

DELTA State Police Command has called on relevant stakeholders to attend the two-day national conference, which is being organised by Vanguard Media Limited, tagged, Partnering with the Police for Free, Fair and Credible 2011 Elections, kicking-off in Asaba, tomorrow.

The former Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has declared that he is not afraid of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, because he did not steal a kobo from the coffers of Lagos State. He stated this when he addressed Lagos market men and women at Alhaja Abibat Mogaji’s house yesterday on the forthcoming April elections.

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, said, yesterday, that it would now carry out bombing and attacks in Lagos, Abuja and Niger-Delta without prior notification as promised earlier since the government was treating its threat as a joke.

The Nigerian Navy, yesterday, effected a major shake-up in its hierarchy with the redeployment of nine Rear Admirals, eight Navy Commodores and appointment of new Flag Officers Commanding, FOCs.

Pastor of Household of God and presidential candidate of Fresh Democratic Party, FRP, Pastor Chris Okotie, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to a public debate, just as he said that the only way the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can win the forthcoming elections was through rigging.

The Nuhu Ribadu presidential campaign organisation has expressed surprise at the insistence of President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo to attend only televised debates supervised by the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON.

A 21-year-old undergraduate has been arrested for allegedly poisoning a well ostensibly to dissuade people from fetching water from there.