Asaba – A tipper and a commercial motor cycle rider, popularly called Okada, yesterday, in Asaba, Delta State, were involved in a ghastly accident that left the Okada rider and his passenger dead.

REPRESENTATIVES of Itsekiri ethnic nationality will, today, appear before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions to defend their petition against the handling of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme.

OROBOSA OMO- OJO is the Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Arts, Culture and Tourism. Orobosa is also the Publisher of a community paper, the Mid West Herald. In this interview in Benin, he claims that Governor Oshiomhole has fulfilled 95 percent of his electoral promises to Edo people, dismisses insinuations of a Bini Agenda against the governor and affirms that people will return the governor for a second term. Excerpts:

In the drive to achieve education for all by 2015, the Federal Government has marked the education of the girl-child as top priority with the aim of bridging the disparity of gender education in the country.

THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, is set to take delivery of four new water crafts meant to boost navigation of vessels in and out of the nation’s harbours.

Total E&P Nigeria Limited’s (TEPNG), said that its team has reported significant progress in the efforts to ensure that the incident is brought under control and to stop the subsurface gas flow from the affected well.

TO fully prepare Nigerian children for 21st century e-learning challenges with adequate IT skills and knowledge, Laptops4Learning in partnership with Flour Mills of Nigeria have empowered Kuramo Primary School with 50 laptops for technology based learning.

The spiral controversy surrounding suspension and subsequent reprieve granted the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA Justice Isa Ayo Salami, by the National Judicial Council, NJC, on August 18 2011, may have unwittingly exposed the fallibility of justice administration in the country.

I SHARE the indignation which informed VANGUARD’s editorial of Monday, May 7th, 2012, titled “NIGERIA-MISTAKE SINCE WHEN?” The editorial noted that “contenders for disintegrating Nigeria are increasing” and the latest recruit into this cast was Prof. AngoAbdullahi, former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

The efforts of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko-led government in Ondo State at repositioning the state’s education sector has recorded another major boost with Master Akinboboye Akinwande, a JSS 3 student in the state, emerging the overall winner of the 2012 Edition of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) National Quiz Competition.

ENUGU—Former media aide to Col. Robert Akonobi, ex-military governor of old Anambra State, Mr. Conrad Bosah, and three others lost their lives in two different auto crashes in Enugu on Tuesday.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has been urged to make the Ibadan North Local Government Skills Acquisition Centre located at Yemetu Aladorin a diploma- awarding institution.

The Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga has revealed the decision of the Federal Government to mandate all government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, including the state government to patronize Made-in-Nigeria products in line with the local content provision for government procurement.

THE Learned, a 340 paged book is authored by Italy based Nigerian Dr Ikenna Kaius Ikejezie, who has proved himself, through this publication an intellectual, who though resides in far away Italy, is versatile with historical facts about Nigeria as well as possessing sound knowledge of how religion should be applied in critical times.

Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said the disturbing security situation in the country is impacting negatively on the investment environment, leading to declining confidence across the broad spectrum of prospective domestic and foreign investors in the economy.