In satisfying the requirement of one of their courses at school, the 300L students of Mass Communication and Library & Information Science (UNILORIN), last Thursday, organised hypothetical Public Relations progammes. The course, MAC 312 “Public Relations Techniques” is a practical course in the department of Mass Communication.

THE Nigeria Union of Pensioners in the South West, yesterday raised alarm over the continued refusal of the federal government to pay members benefits as a result of the ongoing pension probe, lamenting that Federal pensioners were suffering untold hardship.

Nigeria’s U20s have arrived in South Africa ahead of an opening match versus Ghana on Friday night in the Cape Town International Challenge.

As preparation for Delta State local government elections begins, an Itsekiri youth leader and right activist, Mr. Omolubi Newuwumi, weekend, emerged the consensus candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Warri North Local Government Area for the polls.

Trial of former managing director of Finbank, Mr. Okey Nwosu and three other directors of the bank, continued, yesterday, before an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, calling its second witness, Mr. Joe Aba.

BENIN—AHEAD of the July 14 governorship election in Edo State, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lost a major financier in Edo North senatorial district, Chief Francis Alimekhena; former state chairman of the party, Chief Edward Sado and over 2,000 supporters of the party in Etsako East Local Government Area, who dumped the party for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

Asaba – Tension is rising in Okpai, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, following a deadlock over alleged refusal by Nigerian Agip Oil Company to dialogue with the community. The community had accused Agip of short-changing it.

President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), Mr. Joseph Daudu, SAN, has stressed the need for the Federal Government to allow the creation of state police, saying “this is the best way to prevent crime in the country.”

SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has written to President Goodluck Jonathan, praising him for signing into law the protracted 65 years retirement age Act for non-teaching workers of Nigerian universities.

The calm atmosphere of Compton compound, a popular off-campus hostel for students of the Federal University of Technology, (FUT) Minna, located at 13 Zarumai Road along Bosso Road, was ruffled penultimate Saturday, as hoodlums suspected to be armed robbers, stormed the compound in an unsuccessful armed robbery operation, but leaving dead a 400 level student, Emmanuel Uduak.

The next set of qualifying matches in this year’s Gulder Ultimate Five-Aside Football competition moves to Ijebu Ode and the Dipo Dina Stadium will be the venue for action packed football matches as teams from the South-West clash for the opportunity to represent the zone at this year’s Grand Finale which will hold in Lagos.

Bolton legend Jay-Jay Okocha has blasted the Trotters hierarchy, claiming they were to blame for the club’s relegation due to their lack of ambition and investment.

PALM wine is one of the many brands of native wines drunk in Nigeria. While some other wine types like burukutu, pito and ogogoro are brewed and distilled from either wheat, guinea corn grains or even as a derivative from fermented palm wine, the particular brand called palm wine is got straight as sap from either raffia palm or oil palm trees.

NO fewer than 9,186 aged persons are to benefit from another batch of the social security scheme initiated by Ekiti State Government.

As world football governing body FIFA gets set to kick off series of qualifying matches that will culminate in the qualification for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, five Nigerians have been deployed to help organize some of those matches in the African continent.