An aircraft belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with registration number: 5NNOC operated by Aero Contractors yesterday overshot the runway on landing at Osubi airport in Warri, Delta State.

NOK Art came to lime light in 1928, when Col. J. Dent Young found a small terracotta head amongst the gravels from tin mining operations near the village of Nok in the Jos Plateau of Central Nigeria.

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Appropriation are meeting presidency officials today to reconcile ‘faulty’ allocations in the 2013 budget approved by the National Assembly.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has given the Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, two weeks to submit the full list of Itsekiri youths to be included in the amnesty programme.

No doubt, reports of the low quality of Nigerian graduates have heightened in recent times. These reports however, seemed to have reached their pinnacle with the recent revelation by the Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, that some corps members cannot communicate properly in English Language.

OWERRI—Imo State government has described the indefinite industrial action called by the leadership of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, as an embarrassment and politically motivated.

REUBEN ABATI was at his most combative last Sunday, with his withering attack on “The Hypocrisy of Yesterday’s Men”.

Fatigue and loss of functional capacity have often been implicated as some of the most distressing side effects reported by cancer patients and usually more severe while patients are receiving treatment.

SENATOR Suleiman Adokwe represents Nasarawa South Senatorial Zone in the Senate and he is the Chairman, Senate Services Committee, the committee which looks after the welfare of senators. In this interview, he speaks on hsi duties among other issues

POLICE authorities in Ondo State have swung into action to unravel the mystery behind the pouring of acid on a former member of the state Task Force on Forest Reserve, Mr Adetutu Ajisafe, by some hoodlums.

WHENEVER the Christmas season approaches, the Igbos naturally look forward to it with great enthusiasm.

The final of the maiden edition of Innovation/Invention Exhibition and Award took place at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja last week. At the end of the event organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST), Berekotry Detergent Limited emerged the grand prize winner of N1,000,000.00 (one million naira) and a plaque, followed by Nigeria Air Force Technology Institute, Kaduna, and tied at the third position were two Aba-based outfits – National Animal Research and Best Nigeria Ltd.

Saddened by the high level poor state of health of most citizens of the country, the Dean, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Professor Rafiu Okuneye, has called on government, teachers and other stakeholders in the education sector to emphasize the need for qualitative physical and health education, especially in the basic schools curricula.

THE 2nd Defendant/Applicant submitted that no court can make an order capable of turning a citizen into an outlaw; as this can lead to a state of general break down of law and order and if the current trend of rushing to court for injunctive orders restraining criminal prosecution by some powerful individuals is not quickly halted by this Court, then Nigeria shall soon be witnessing a situation where armed robbery and murder suspects will obtain orders to restrain the Police from arresting, investigating and prosecuting them.

The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike has expressed concern over the delay in the take-off of infrastructure development in the nine new universities in the country.