The 2013 Children’s Day Celebration at the Navy Sailing Club, Ojo was marked with a lot of water sport activities for children.

PORT HARCOURT — Rumuewhor community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has tasked the Rivers State Government and the Police to intensify efforts to secure the release of abducted two National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members by kidnappers in the state.

It will be recalled that two NYSC members were, two days ago, abducted from Odegu Comprehensive High School, Rumuewhor by gunmen, who invaded the NYSC quarters in the community school.

Their whereabouts is still unknown, as no contact had been established with their abductors.

His Royal Highness, Oha Ikech Igbukwu, Yeweali Rumuewhor, who spoke on the development, said the community was calling on state government and the police to help free the corps members.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has sworn in six newly-appointed judges of the state High Court, charging them to demonstrate integrity and shun corrupt tendencies in the discharge of their duties.

The Nigeria Football Federation will on Thursday in Abuja hold the Draw Ceremony for this year’s 2013 Federation Cup finals.

Delta State Government is to introduce the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, model in the country’s oil and gas industry hub, Warri.

Dutch club VVV Venlo are to off load ex-Nigeria U20 star Uche Nwofor after they were relegated.

Managing Director, Dragnet Solutions, Mr. Robert Ikazoboh has said that national development can be achieved with investment in technology.

he Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Joint Campus Committee, JCC, has condemned the alleged attack on students of Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos by naval officers said to have assaulted and shot sporadically until three students were feared dead and 30 others injured.

THE absence of governors elected on the platform of opposition political parties in the country seeking to merge to All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, forced the Joint Merger Committee to adjourn to June 4 for deliberations on the merger process.

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has procured over 100 tractors for distribution to state ministries of agriculture in the nine Niger Delta states to boost food production.

As part of efforts to safeguard the Nigerian cyber space from external threats and to make Nigeria a global leader in the fight against cyber threats, the National Information Technology Development Authority, NITDA has announced its plan to partner the International Multilateral Partnership against Cyber Threats, IMPACT, UN-IMPACT and office of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan to establish an ITU-IMPACT Advanced Regional Centre for Cyber Security office in Abuja before the end of the year.

AT least three persons have reportedly died in Ile Oluji area of Ondo State following move to forcefully eject the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Suulade Adedugbe, from the palace by the youths.

The family of a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death on a London street condemned the attack as senseless on Tuesday, distancing itself from the murder which has provoked an anti-Muslim backlash.

Two weeks after troops were deployed to flush out terrorists from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following declaration of state of emergency in the three states, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video published, Tuesday, called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.

Eighteen days after they were abducted while on their way to attend a wedding ceremony at Benin, the Edo State capital, wife, daughter and driver of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, Monday night, regained their freedom.