Sepp Blatter was endorsed for re-election as Fifa president by four African regional federations on Saturday in Johannesburg.

The sixth substantive Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, Professor Chigozie Cyril Asiabaka, has been appointed by the Vita Abba-led Governing Council of the institution.

AS part of efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the Heineken Africa Foundation, HAF, has launched PharmAccess Africa Studies to Evaluate Resistance, PASER.

COMMITTEE for Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has urged the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta to halt all forms of extra-judicial killings of unarmed and former militants in the region in its bid to fish out militant leader, John Togo and his men.

CHAIRMAN, Amnesty Phase II, Delta State, Mr Kingsley Muturu, has appealed to the Delta State Commissioner of Police to release a frontline member of the group, Miebi Perede, describing the murder charges levelled against him as false.

Four political parties and their gubernatorial candidates, including, All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA; Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; Action Alliance, AA and African Political System, APS, have approached the Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal, seeking the nullification of the election of Governor Chibuike Amaechi.

IN November 2004, during the mayhem at which parts of Anambra State were burnt down, it was difficult for me to believe that people from Anambra could inflict such violence on their State.

The Federal Government has reiterated its preparedness to take adequate measures to prevent any disaster posed by the threat of eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon.

The Vice Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Aize Obayan, said the institution would break the jinx of poor ranking of Nigerian universities and be among the world’s best

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has advocated the establishment of a single university that would operate a collegiate system for the South-West states.