Vice-President Namadi Sambo has said that two out of the four turbines at the Sapele power plant have been completed and ready for evacuation.

Niger Republic coach, Brah Taher has said that his team is not in the country for the WAFU Cup to be beaten by the second string Super Eagles.

The Lagos State Government is to spend N102 billion ($ 650 million) on the construction of the Lekki International Airport which is expected to commence operation in May 2012.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, appears to have recorded a major but silent victory in the just concluded elections with the defeat, at the polls ,of most of the politicians it listed in its Advisory list ahead of the elections.

Nigeria’s best male sprinters are in Port Harcourt about now, ready to test their might in the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Golden League.

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday launched a legal battle over last month’s presidential election with indication that it intends to rely heavily on evidence provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

SOBBING pervaded Government House, Awka on Thursday evening at a special service for Mrs. Agnes Ezennadozie, a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, from Anambra State who was murdered during the post _presidential election riot in Bauchi.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State yesterday wept uncontrollably during the funeral service for Mr Seun Adewunmi, a member of the NYSC killed in Bauchi during the post-election violence.

Chief Reuben Adebayo Fasoranti knew exactly why he was in the Ondo State Government of the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin (1979-83) service.

A fruit does not drop far from its tree. In Nigeria, children are being made in the image and likeness of their parents, following their footsteps in their professions.

AFTER rain comes sunshine, so goes the saying. By analogy, after elections come election petitions and the Nigerian polity is about to witness another torrent of petitions after the 2011 elections. Members of the tribunals have been named and sitting will begin shortly.

The last election in Ondo State promised to be a close, straight fight between the ruling Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; a re-enactment of the 2007 duel between Governor Olusegun Agagu and Dr. Segun Mimiko, the incumbent governor.

The Civil Society in a preliminary statement on the supplementary election last night said voting materials in Mbatoli and Ngor Okpala arrived between 11.30 am and 12.00 pm, when accreditation of voters was due to end. It stated that in a number of cases, the materials were incomplete.

Fresh violence erupted in Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa Local Government Areas of Bauchi State yesterday, barely three weeks after the post-presidential election riots in the state that claimed many lives.

A former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, and chairman of Gbekebor Federated Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Ebitonmo Alapala, yesterday, lashed out at some former militants, said to have threatened to cripple oil installations in the state should the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fail to reverse alleged imposition of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on the people.