AT least 20 houses, speed boats and property worth millions of naira have been destroyed by fire in Penama Zion village, Bisuobo community, in Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers(NUT), has condenmed the killing of four principals from Taraba State in last Wednesday’s crisis in the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

For two weeks, February 23 to 27 and March 2 – 6, the Lagos Polo club was the centre of attraction as the 2011 MTN/Lagos Polo tournament took the centre stage. With the theme as friendship and fairplay, it was two weeks of high-class sports, entertainment and tourism all in one package put together by the tournament management committee, headed by Ayo Olasoju.

Chairman of the Technical Committee and Director of the technical department of the Weightlifting Federation of Nigeria, Captain Babatunde Adadimeji (rtd) has said that the Federation’s forthcoming Open Championship is expected to produce another world champion.

Organisers of the 2010 Rivers State Governor’s Cup, NNPC/Shell, are excited with the award presented to the company for their aggressive drive in developing and promoting sports at the grassroots.

Arrangements have been concluded for the signing of a trade agreement between Nigeria and the State of Kuwait.

President, African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and wife of Ekiti State governor, Chief (Mrs) Bisi Fayemi, has been named among 100 personalities working to improve the lives of girls and women around the world.

If the pleas ant result from the charity organisations that benefited from the contributions from
Julius Berger Charity Gulf tournament is anything to go by, the organisers of the championship would be looking elsewhere to ensure proper and even distribution of gifts to the needy and the less privileged in the society.

Heartland of Owerri FC will today lock horns with Sharks FC in Owerri, a home match that will see the Owerri fans come out in mass to cheer their team, hoping they will win and move a step up on the log.

It was aimed, among many other things, to up the ante of golf in the Akwa Ibom State, popularise the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort and afford golfers from around the country have a memorable golfing extravaganza.