The policy statement by the Honourable Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi to open the National Sports Festival (NSF) has received the backing of Delta and Ekiti States.

The National Sports Festival was off to a jerky start Tuesday night with participating journalists, volunteers and staff of various committee left in the lurch.

WORRIED by the security situation in the state, Acting Commissioner of Police in Edo State, Mr. Hurdi Muhammad, yesterday, held security meeting with Divisional Police Officers in the state with a view to finding solution to the security challenges in the state.

TRADERS at the popular Nkwo Nnewi market noted for the sale of motorcycle and parts yesterday closed own the market to protest the menace of kidnapping in the area.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, arrested a police officer who rode his 100 CC commercial motorcycle on the Agege Motor Road, Ikeja in defiance of the traffic law.

Gunmen shot and killed a Chinese businessman at Ogudu area of Lagos on Wednesday night, Nigerian Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide has said.

Not less than 267 youth entrepreneurs engaged in agriculture drawn from various states have been trained by the Federal Government to consolidate on the YouWin entrepreneurial empowerment scheme which remains one of the high points of the present administration efforts at reducing unemployment rate among the youths.

President of Africa-Middle East Association of Gastroenterology, AMAGE, Prof. Hussein Abdel-Hamid, has pledged the support of the body to Nigerian physicians in the research and management of diseases of the digestive system and internal medicine in general.

Despite the fuel scarcity being experienced in some parts of the country, Federal Government has given assurances that there would be uninterrupted supply of petroleum products during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

The stream of people flowing into Illorin following the death of Kwara’s one time political leader, Dr. Olusola Saraki is now ebbing giving family members the opportunity to grieve and come to grips over the implications of the loss.