Newcastle have alerted police after Nigerian striker Sammy Ameobi was subjected to racist abuse on Twitter, the Premier League club confirmed on Tuesday.

A Senior Magistrates’ Court in Karu, Abuja has sentenced two men, Jamilu Bala, 28, and Baba Arona, 21, to 12 strokes of the cane each for disturbing the public.

Prof. Nicholas Damachi, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, has blamed the poor performance of students in both internal and public examinations on the increasing decline in the quality of teachers.

INDEED, one of the first opportunity that was taken at the inception of this international exchange was the partnership between Delta State and UNDP on Territorial Action on Climate Change, TACC; TACC enables UNDP partner with a territory to adopt strategies to combat climate change. That work is on-going. We are also at the definition of project specific engagements for the state.

When Nigeria drew with Guinea and failed to qualify for the 2012 Nations Cup, journalists confronted Austin Eguavoen and reminded him that the fall started when he led Eagles to the 1-0 defeat in Guinea before Samson Siasia was given the job.

The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday next public holidays to mark the celebration of Eid-el-Kabir.

Even though Governor Amaechi is just at the beginning of his second term in office he apparently has a view of his legacy at the end. One vow he has made is to handover a debt free treasury to his successor despite his recent recourse to debt options to sustain his works in progress.

The first point to note about the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry is that it is heavily deregulated and just lightly regulated. Over the years the NNPC got wise to the fact that it could not refine, warehouse, wholesale and retail petroleum products all by itself.

Peremabiri community in the Boma clan in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, is on the throes of being washed away by erosion, as a large portion of the community has already been eroded.

WARRI-DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has charged community leaders in the state to assist in securing public properties in their areas of authority, even as he maintained that the myriad of problems confronting the education sector in the state cannot intimidate his administration.

Can you give us an update on the state of the four refineries – the two in Port Harcourt, and the ones in Warri and Kaduna?

THE establishment of the Nigerian National Shipping lines Ltd was borne out of government deliberate policy not only to participate in the invisible earning sector of the economy but also as part of its economic independence from the colonial masters and the creation ofthe country’s distinct image.

It is no longer news that the Federal Government has developed cold feet over going ahead with the planned removal of petroleum subsidy, which will herald the full commencement of deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector.

THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday received the report of the Appeal Screening Committee which arbitrated alleged petitions raised against the embattled Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipire Sylva.

The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation may,. today, announce Stephen Keshi as Samson Siasia’s successor.