WARRI, the oil city in Delta State, is, no doubt, one of the hotbeds of the Niger-Delta struggle and since ex-militants dropped arms in 2009 and accepted amnesty, the next task was for elected /appointed leaders, both at local and state levels, to develop the oil communities, which was the major basis for the agitation.

Until three years ago, Koleosho Saidat Biola, an English graduate from Lagos State University, was not different from an average lady on the streets of Oshogbo , Osun State. She was one of the millions of unemployed youths scattered across the country. According to her, she was just roaming the streets in search of a job. Then she was absorbed into the Osun State Empowerment Youths Scheme, O’YES. O’YES is an empowerment programme focused mainly on youths.

She looked at the monstrous machine with sadness written all over her face. She quickly snapped out of shock and put on her thinking cap. Before her was what one could rightly describe as a sleeping giant, a massive rice mill capable of producing 180 tonnes of rice daily, lying fallow at Elele Alimini in Rivers State.

Following the introduction of special education incentive for every goal scored at the just concluded National Championship of the Airtel Rising Stars Under-17 Football National Competition by leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, twelve primary schools in local communities across the six geo-political zones of the country have been chosen as beneficiaries of the initiative.

The Kano State Taekwondo Coach, Ibrahim Yahuza, on Friday said that his team would emerge the winner of the National Youth Games scheduled for Dec. 5 to Dec. 15 in Abuja.

Olawale Edun, promoter of the monthly “Saturday Boxing Show’’, is impressed by the invitation of four boxers from Lagos State to the National Boxing Federation (NBF) national camp.

The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated a 13-man committee to organise the 2013 Oil and Gas, Trade and Investment Forum.

No fewer than 70 landlords have been arrested in the last two months for defaulting in providing toilets facilities in their houses in Ekiti.

Disunity within the Labor government helped conservative leader Tony Abbott rise to power in Saturday’s Australian elections, politicians and analysts said, with infighting and switching of leaders alienating voters.

Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, quietly exited politics Saturday, congratulating the woman who took over her constituency as Labor conceded defeat in national elections.