The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has postponed the group stage games of this year’s Federation Cup competition, earlier billed to take place between 20th – 24th July in four centres across the federation.
At a meeting which took place in Aba on Sunday and presided over by the NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, the Committee said a new date for the group stage matches will be announced soon.

THE 200 pensioners of Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, have dragged the state government to the Public Complaints Commission, over outstanding gratuities and pensions.

TO ensure the sustenance of quality health care delivery and achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, by 2015, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has advocated the need for collaboration of all sectors.

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Abia State chapter, Monday, assured workers that it was committed to the realisation of the new minimum wage.

SUCH an enterprise will engage our public administrators throughout the continent as they are the repository of our development history and experience. It will require that they revisit and resume their strategic and intellectual preoccupation which was their greatest asset at independence when they and they only were in a position to guide our political leaders through the labyrinth of our colonial administration.

EX-MILITANTS laid siege to the East-West Road, weekend, at Orhoro community in the outskirt of Bomadi local government area, Delta State with trailers and almost lynched one of their former leaders for supposedly embezzling their allowances.

SOME close aides of the former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State may have dumped him following the party’s failure in the last elections.

THE International College of Pentecostal Bishops of Nigeria and Overseas, Monday, called for the immediate sack of the Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido for allegedly using his position to create a policy that is threatening the unity of the country.

As controversy continues to trail last week’s interception of a lorry carrying 700 quarry explosives used for the blasting of rocks by construction companies in the FCT, the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim has placed a temporary embargo on the buying and movement of such construction explosives (dynamites).

Nigeria has nominated Mr Chile Ebolie-Osuji as its candidate for the International Criminal Court (ICC) judicial elections later in the year.