Following persistent vow to rev up his administration’s war against corruption, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered ministries, departments, and agencies to subject themselves to the Freedom of Information Act, FoIA.

The Cross River State Police command came first at the just concluded Zone 6 Police Command sports championship with a total of 98 medals while Rivers State Command emerged second.

Members of the Jaamatus Ahlus Sunnah Lid Daawatis Wal Jihad, a.k.a. Boko Haram yesterday celebrated the inability of the Federal Government to celebrate the nation’s 51st independence anniversary at the Eagle Square owing to threats by the group and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to bomb the nation’s capital city if the celebration went ahead.

MIRRED in socio-economic and development cesspool and engulfed by recurring ethno-religious crisis and insecurity, some eminent Nigerians and groups, yesterday, said the country was yet to realise the visions of her founding fathers, 51 years after independence.

Former handler of the national team and member of the Nigeria Football Federation technical committee, Christian Chukwu has appealed to Nigerians, particularly the sporting media not to give too much hype to this weekend’s crucial 2013 Africa Cup of Nations lest the players be put under undue pressure.