BY LAWANI MIKAIRU Controversy surrounding the status of the aircraft, Bombardier BD 700 Express jet owned by the Rivers State Government was further stoked, yesterday, as the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, faulted the claim by Rivers State that the aircraft was being operated through a local operator, Caverton Helicopters. Rivers State Commissioner for Information […]

The Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday called on all tiers of government in the country to ensure allocation of 26 per cent annual budget to education as they celebrate 2013 May Day.

RECENTLY, Ikelebe Sports Arena Auchi, the Edo North Senatorial District Headquarters was a melting point for over a dozen Masquerades and casts of traditional troupes at the beacon of the Centre for Afenmai Heritage & Cultural Studies, a creative outfit for the promotion, propagation and documentation of art and culture of the Afenmai people.

CHAIRMAN of Ughelli South Local Government Transition Committee, Delta State, Chief Oviri Uto, has denied squandering N25 million belonging to the council.

Everton striker Victor Anichebe has put his international career with Nigeria on hold so he can “manage his body accordingly”.

The Warri City Sta-dium will wear a carnival-like atmosphere as football and music will hold sway, come Sunday 5th May, during the final of the Delta State Federations Cup.

The Nigerian Army will on May 20th, 2013 declare open a combat Sports championship at the old Nigeria Defence Academy in Kaduna.

THERE is an innovation to electioneering campaigns in Edo State. Apparently, at the approach of every election, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, puts a basket in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to go to the river and fetch water, with instruction not to return until the basket is full.

THE disengaged Anambra State indigenes from the Abia State civil service caused a stir, yesterday, at the Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka during the celebration of this year’s workers’ day as they knelt at the arena raising their hands in supplication to God to come to their rescue.

NIgeria sowed the wind and is reaping the whirlwind. It is a country that has no plans for the people who will control its future. Every former military ruler alive wants to be elected to rule again.

Mimosa pudica commonly called ‘Touch-me-not’, Sensitive plant’, ‘Humble plant’ or ‘Shameful plant’ because of its reaction to touch, is a weed found throughout the tropics. Apart from its many traditional medicinal uses, a researcher at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Pharm. Justus Nwaoga, has discovered that the weed has solar properties suitable for the production of solar cell/electricity. Nwaoga spoke with Vanguard Learning in Ibadan recently. Excerpts:

GOVERNOR Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has blamed the nation’s security woes on insufficient investment in human capacity development and failure of most critical state institutions.

The Foreign Polytechnic Project, a partnership between a United Kingdom-based tertiary institution and the Bomadi Vicariate of the Catholic Church, has suffered financial setback in its efforts to complete the permanent site building at Bomadi, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State.

ONITSHA — National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, Wednesday, said he was prepared to accept Governor Peter Obi and his faction of the party if they obeyed the order of Enugu Court of Appeal that reinstated him.

LAST Thursday in Washington, USA, Kingsley Kuku, President Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Niger Delta and chairman, presidential amnesty programme, gave us a peek into the mindset of the administration current in power in Nigeria.