President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Solomon Ogba has commended grassroots athletics coach, Isaac Osagie who has been fishing out budding talents from primary and secondary schools to train.

Chairman of the League Management Company, Honourable Nduka Irabor has said that the alarm being raised by Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt over the security situation in Maiduguri was unfounded

Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to receive with shock and disbelief, news of the decrepit level of decay at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos coupled with its deplorable state. The college located on Oba Akinjobi way, close to Arch Bishop V inning Cathedral never gave any passer-by the slightest inkling of its real state, until it was revealed by a television station in January, 2013.

No one can say tomorrow, Simon Peter, one of the top associates of Jesus warned, when he wrote that “a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.”

NOW it looks like President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to take on the beast of religious terrorists ravaging different parts of Northern Nigeria, particularly the North-Eastern part, with his imposition of emergency rule on the three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa last Wednesday.

BENIN—Bini Development Union, BDU, a socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, operating in the state, to reconsider its decision to suspend some Bini natives working in the company in order not to face the wrath of host community.

Fidelity Bank plc yesterday declared a profit after tax of N18.2 billion for its financial year ended December 31, 2012, just as it approved a dividend of 21 kobo per share to its shareholders.

The Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Dele J. Ezeoba may have set for him set a target to accomplish the presidential directives to contain the acts of piracy, armed robbery in the high seas, stealing and shipping away of crude oil and illegal shipment of arms within the country’s territorial waters, but the big questions remains unanswered.

Senator Sonni Ogbuoji representing Ebonyi South senatorial district in the Senate in this interview bares his mind on the imperative of the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, on the welfare of the Niger Delta region, the dilapidated state of the Abakaliki-Afikpo expressway despite the huge funds ploughed into the project and the need for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to remain focussed ahead of the 2015 general election. Excerpts:

Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Ahmadu Alli has identified poor funding performance as the major factor militating against the growth and survival of the Nigerian Postal Service.