Montenegro defender Miodrag Dzudovic has written to UEFA calling for leniency for Wayne Rooney as the England striker awaits his 2012 European Championships fate, reports said Saturday.

Edo State chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Elder Olu Ashoko recently berated the Assistant Publicity Secretary of the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bisi Idaomi over an interview she granted by saying Oshiomhole is not Edo’s expected messiah.

In a keenly contested software competition involving 16 schools from the Nigerian tertiary institutions yesterday at the African premier business resort Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, three students from the Abia State Polytechnic won the 2011 national software Innovation cup organized for students in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The management of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, says the federal government has started fine tuning arrangements to restructure and add more values to the scheme.

Managing Director of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigerian (FAAN), Mr. George Uriesi yesterday affirmed that the Federal Government was set to upgrade most of the airports across the country with the sum of N19 billion.

As protests continued to trail October 22, 2011 council polls in Lagos, Gov Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state will today preside at the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected chairmen of the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDA, a signpost for the formal take off of administration at the grassroots.

MINISTER of labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu yesterday took the lobby of the federal government on the proposed removal of fuel subsidy to the National Assembly, with a plea with the Senate to support the move.

CONTRARY to popular belief that the Federal Government had done extensive consultation before its pronouncement on oil subsidy removal, the umbrella body of Christians in the country, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday denied any knowledge of such a plan.

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has rejected current moves by members of the House of Representatives to remove the Chairman of the EFCC through a bill that would preclude any high-ranking Police officer from the post of Chairman of the anti-corruption agency.

Omawunmi Magbele, lawyer turned musician who was recently in the eye of the storm following the birth of her baby and the mystery shrouding the identity of the father of the baby, is our guest on Saturday Vanguard celebrity pages. She opens up for the first time on her career, love life and more.

There is tension among Nigerian security agencies following dangerous signals emitting particularly from military and paramilitary services over the non-payment of salaries of armed forces and Police personnel by the various organs responsible for such payments.

Ten years ago, the bustling town of Zaki_Biam, in a geographical area known as the Sankera axis of Benue State had a sour taste of Nigeria’s military might when a detachment of the Nigerian Army allegedly invaded the town in a reprisal attack for the alleged cold blooded murder of 19 soldiers sent to restore peace in the town following an ethnic violence in the area.

Pandemonium broke out in both Ijebu-Ode and Ifo local Government areas of Ogun state simultaneously on Thursday evening, leaving three people dead, while scores of others sustained serious injuries in the fracas between two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

Though the battle for the Creek Haven, the seat of power in Bayelsa State is open for all the registered political parties in the state but the event of the last few weeks has forced political analysts in the only homogenous Ijaw speaking state to narrow the contest to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) given its commanding presence and followership in the state.

Sam Loco’s eldest son, Bismarch Efe spoke to HVP shortly after his Dad’s funeral rites concerning the kind of relationship that existed between the departed actor and his children. He also explained why his Dad did not encouraged his children to take after him in the area of acting.