CHEVRON has donated IT equipment and software to the Rivers state University of Science and Technology. They include 104 workstations, four printers, two server workstations, multimedia equipment, seven AutoCAD software licenses, xx process design and modelling software and licenses and so on.

Sunday Vanguard tried to get Governor Timipreye Sylva to grant an interview on the present stasis in the political events in his state but did not succeed.

HEAVILY armed bandits yesterday stormed Kabba, the headquarters of Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, where they bombed the divisional police station, killing two police men. The branch of a bank located around the police station was also bombed but efforts to gain access to the bank vault failed.

The Federal Government says it will not be distracted by the activities of groups without well defined agenda, reaffirming commitment to transforming the country.

The low level of Nigeria’s football continued to show few days after no Nigerian player made the shortlist of nominees for the 2011 African Football of the Year as they have again been left out of this year’s BBC African Footballer of the Year Award.

The audience at last Monday’s 2010/2011National Honours Award, NHA, was taken on a voyage of governmental recklessness when it was announced that there was a shortage of medals for awardees. More instructive was the hovering presence of the threat of Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaanaa (brothers), popularly known as the Boko Haram sect, and the choking security presence at the International Conference Centre, ICC, venue of the awards.

THE Zonal Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Yakubu Attah, yesterday, raised the alarm over the spate of road accidents around the Ovia River, along the Benin-Lagos express road in Ovia North East Local Government Council of Edo State, just as he disclosed that no less than 268 lives have been lost along that Ovia section since July.

An insight into how the Customs overshot its targeted revenue for 2011 following improved performance in the areas of anti-smuggling and trade facilitation. The Service raked-in N602 billion within 10 months of operations, according to the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Ogun State Command, DC Oteri Richard, who attributed the feat to the ingenuity of the Comptroller General Dikko Inde. Excerpt:

The National Award has come and gone but the controversy over should or not get continues to reverberate especially with the tacit rejection of the one conferred on the world acclaimed novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe.