A total of 70 Nigerian sportsmen have qualified for the London 2012 Olympics and Para lympics games scheduled to begin next July and August respectively.

The trial of Mr. Yhisa Badmus, former Chief Accountant to Vanguard Media Limited for conspiracy and fraud involving over N31.75 million, before a Lagos High Court, Igbosere, again could not go on, yesterday, due to the absence of his counsel.

TO expand international air traffic at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja, NAIA, the Federal Government is set to construct a second runway.

Given the hitherto dominance of the North in the nation’s polity, it was not surprising that the region’s 19 governors would seek a reawakening of that culture of northern political superiority when they met last week. At the end of the meeting, the governors pledged to unify behind a northern presidential candidate in the 2015 elections.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State recently announced his plan to establish a fourth-tier government. According to him, the government will be made up of traditional rulers, town union executives, government appointed speakers and civil servants. These people will oversee the development of the local communities.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, yesterday, congratulated Governor Sullivan Iheanacho Chime on his victory over his eligibility to contest the 2011 governorship election on the platform of the party.

Operators in the oil and gas industry have commended the invitation of the armed forces and the police by the Federal Government to collaborate on stemming the rising incidence of crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in Nigeria.

A front line leadership group in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, Azungwu Elite Forum, has expressed regret that many victims of the rainstorm, which occurred on April 11, this year, were still homeless.

BENIN – Edo State Director of State Security Service, SSS, Mr. Bello Bakori, yesterday, expressed concern that journalists were gradually becoming targets of attack by persons who are highly intolerant of the media.

BARELY one week, after a bloody attack on two banks in Delta State by a gang of robbers, in which over 10 people were killed, including a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, another bank robbery has taken place in the state.