ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, Abraka Chapter, yesterday, decried the abandonment of capital projects on the three campuses of the university.

After his first solo exhibition nine years ago, one of Nigeria‘s foremost master Pastel artist, Jefferson Jonahan last week came back with his second solo exhibition tagged State of Inertia.

An Ikeja High Court, Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till December 6, 2011, hearing in the suit by sacked workers of Unilever Nigeria Plc, who are challenging their sack.

The period spanning mid-September and the end of October 2011 had been a rather boring imposition I’d classify as one that has done me no good. Way back in the late 1950s, my primary school headmaster it was who first taught that idle vacations are dangerous to one’s health.

Two scintillating tries by Yahaya and tries by Abdulmalik Salihu, Kazzim and Suleiman, who also converted two of the tries including his own, gave the Nigerian Police a well_deserved 29 _5 victory over Zaria in the final of the Cup competition of the EXP Lagos 7s Rugby Festival at Onikan Stadium on Sunday.

An Ijaw pressure group in the Niger Delta, Meinbutu Group, has challenged the Boko Haram sect to be bold, come out in the open and articulate its grievances instead of heating up the polity.

One Mr Peter Uchetu has been arrested for assaulting a deaf and dumb teenager, who he matcheted in the early hours of yesterday, at his residence in Ojo Barracks, Lagos State.

The State Security Service, SSS, Wednesday, warned the National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, against its plans to stage an anti-fuel subsidy removal rally in Abuja tomorrow insisting that the security situation could not permit such a gathering.

As Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, marks the 16th anniversary of the hanging of Ogoni leader and environmental rights activist, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni kinsmen in 1995, it flayed the Federal Government for giving in to oil firms’ insatiable appetite for new oil fields.

Rector of Yaba College of Technology, Dr Margaret Ladipo, has reiterated the importance of entrepreneurship education as the institution prepares for its 27th convocation ceremony.

November 9, 2011 (AFP) – Mario Monti, cited as possible successor to Italy’s outgoing prime minister, was on Wednesday named a senator for life, a move some said was a sign that he will lead the next government in Rome.

NINE days to the Bayelsa governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the embattled governor, Timipre Sylva was again not cleared by the party yesterday.

IN the wake of mounting threats of bomb attacks in the country by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, the Federal Government Wednesday maintained that it is able to contain the threats because Nigeria’s security agencies are some of the best in the world.

Traditional ruler of Otukpo Kingdom in Benue State, HRH John Emonye (OON), has enjoined youths of the community to take full advantage of the Green golf course built and donated by the Senate President David Mark and embrace the game of golf.

A full house was what new Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi had on his first day of training with the Super Eagles.