The government of India has offered scholarships to Nigerians in biotechnology and skill acquisition.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State yesterday swore in 17 commissioners and 13 Special Advisers,urging them to hit the ground running.

Among those sworn in were the children of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka and late Hubert Ogunde while late Moshood Abiola’s daughter Hafsat was sworn in as a Special Adviser.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yesterday defended the controversial policies of Islamic banking and the introduction of a daily limit on the withdrawal of cash saying the decision of the bank was backed by legal provisions and not to advance the cause of any religion.

An Ikeja High Court, yesterday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Messrs Fidelis Anosike and Noel Anosike, two directors of Folio Communications, owner of Daily Times Plc over their failure to obey court summons
Justice Habeeb Abiru, who issued the warrant of arrest, directed the Inspector General of Police to produce them before him on September 28.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, at the Supreme Court, challenged the decision of the Justice Isa Salami-led presidential election tribunal to continue further hearing on the petition by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, notwithstanding the fact that it was registered on a Sunday.

IT is obvious that our governments think governance is theatrics. The ceaseless disputations over payment of the minimum wage show a set of people who think more of their offices, their comfort than what would benefit others.

A socio-political group, the Oluyole Renaissance Forum, ORF, has urged Governor Abiola Ajimobi to report activities of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Oyo State chapter, to its national body. It said that what Oyo has as its labour union was a “political adversary” and not a labour union.

Chief Great Ogboru, governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party, (DPP) has accused his opponent of being desperate to stay in office.

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan, to use the Freedom of Information, FoI Act to unravel the intrigues surrounding the hospitalisation of late President Umoru Musa Yar ‘Adua in Saudi Arabia and how he was brought back to the country under mysterious circumstances.

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to push for reforms, as Islamists held a separate demonstration calling for stability.

DELTA State Governorship re-run election petition tribunal, will, July 25, decide between Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Chief Great Ogboru of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, who won the January 6 re-run election in the state.

Nigerians Ekigho Ehiosun and Simon Zenke could not travel with their Turkish club Samsunspor to the Netherlands on Wednesday owing to a visa hitch. A club contingent of 25 players, six coaching staff and four medical officials flew out for a training camp without the Nigerians.

Chairman of Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission, LGSC, Chief Aderemi Ajayi yesterday vowed that the commission will discipline anyone found to have entered the service with forged certificates or age falsified.

Mr. Festus Akponovo, President-General, Otor-Igho Community Development Union, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, expressed dismay at media reports credited to one Chief Moses Ode, that the change of the community’s name from Otibio to Otor-Igho was done without consultation.

A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, has said that claims by the Niger Delta Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe on his contributions to end militancy and acceptance of amnesty by youths of the region were mere window dressing