THE remains of Vanguard’s former Bureau Chief, Port Harcourt office, Mr. George Onah, have been laid to rest in his home town, Okpoma, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has said the media had a larger role to play in the effort to reinvigorate the fight against corruption in the country.

Two residents of Sonibare Peace Estate, Iba, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, said to be pensioners have died, since officers of the Nigerian Army started demolishing houses in the estate. The two pensioners, whose houses were affected, were said to have died on Sunday and yesterday morning.

Delta, the State reputed for giant strides in sports, yesterday scored another first, in the area of sports development when it doled out the sum of N25m to Delta athletes who have prospects of competing at the London Olympic Games.

Even though Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State is still engrossed in issues relating to his second term election victory, a number of people interested in succeeding him are not being deterred as they prepare themselves for the battle ahead.

If it was completed on schedule in 2009, the abandoned Federal Capital Territory (FCT)- Agatu-Bagana road project- which runs through Kogi and Nassarawa states -could have reduced the heavy traffic on the ever-busy Abuja-Lokoja highway. Many of the lives that have been lost on this narrow and pot-hole filled road would also have been saved.

As the only indigenous public examination body in Nigeria charged with the task of conducting school-based (June/July) and External candidates (November/December) Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) and also Junior Secondary School (JSI) as well as the National Entrance Examination into Senior Secondary Schools (SS1) of Federal Unity Senior Secondary Colleges (NEEFUSSC), the National Examinations Council (NECO) is confronted with several challenges which tend to undermine its smooth operations.

National Union of Textile Garments and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has expressed concern over rising cases of intolerance to civil protests by security agencies.

Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc., High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has charged the Nigerian media to imbibe professionalism in the sourcing and dissemination of its daily information for public consumption, saying this would further aid in the national unity and development of the nation.