President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated the Flying Eagles of Nigeria on their victory in the finals of the 2011 African Youth Football Championships today in South Africa.

A group of textile traders at the Makola market recently expressed their dissatisfaction over the seizure of their goods by unknown personnel.

MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd has called for a National Broadband Policy to serve as a roadmap for broadband penetration and service delivery in the country. Mr Akinwale Goodluck, MTN Corporate Service Executive, made the call at a capacity-building session for journalists in Abuja. Broadband are signs that use a wide range of frequencies.

The Lagos State Government spent N37.5 billion on the Bar Beach on Victoria Island between 1950 and the late 1990s, according to an official. Mr Adesegun Oniru, Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, disclosed this on Thursday at a media briefing in Ikeja.

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have given a good account of themselves, that they are a team to reckon with, by winning the Young Lions of Cameroon in today’s African Youth Championship final.

Workers in Bayelsa State Sunday had cause to smile as the state government said it would be the first to implement the N18,000 new minimum wage.

DELTA State Police Command, weekend, warned those planning to cause trouble in the state as a result of their dissatisfaction with the outcome of the April 26 governorship poll that any act of lawlessness would be visited by the full weight of the law.

THE Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in Ogun has warned against alleged fraudulent auction of government vehicles by the out-going Governor Olugbenga Daniel administration.

By Ola Ajayi, AS workers across the country mark the workers day, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has advised the Governor-elect in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to ensure that he implements the welfare workers package he met on ground. The advice was given, Sunday, by the out-going governor through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince […]

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said early Sunday. Hours later, Gadhafi’s forces shelled a besieged rebel port in a sign that the airstrike had not forced a change in regime tactics.

Gov. Bukola Saraki of Kwara has appealed to aggrieved members of the PDP who left in the wake of the primaries to return to the fold.

INEC in Bayelsa, yesterday said its adhoc staff deployed for Tuesday’s State House of Assembly elections in Ekeremor council escaped death in the hands of a mob.

As the Flying Eagles get set to lock horns with Cameroon in the final of the African Youth Championship in Johannesburg today, former Chairman of Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt, Adokiye Amiesimaka, says Nigeria is still using over-aged players to prosecute age-grade competitions.

THE Uvwie Local Government Area chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to annul the House of Assembly election in the constituency held on April 26, 2011.

Gov. Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has set up a transition committee to liaise with the in-coming administration in order to ensure a hitch-free hand over.