Whether through individual choice, because they marry young or are victims of coercion and sexual violence, girls in the developing world are having sex without access to contraception.

THE construction of a new naval base expected to gulp N1.2 billion has begun at the riverside community of Odekpe in Ogbaru local government area of Anambra State. The site is about seven kilometers from the Onitsha Port commissioned last year by President Goodluck Jonathan.

CAPITAL projects are on hold in many states due to disagreements between the Federal and state governments over remittance of financial allocation due the states.

The Programme Coordinator of African Telecommunications Union, ATU, Alice Koech, yesterday in Lagos, said that harmonized telecommunications regulatory frame work for African countries would soon be put in place to implement consumer friendly policies.

THE chairman of board of directors of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rile of Law, INTERSOCIETY, Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi has reacted to the rumour making the rounds that the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Willy Obiano was involved in double registration, saying the governorship candidate did what the law provides when a voter transfers from one location to another.

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marina Securities Limited and Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje I. Aig-Imoukhuede as well as Chairman, Heritage Bank Plc, Mr. Akinsola Akinfemiwa are some of the dignitaries expected at this year’s Port Harcourt Amateur Open Golf Championship.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, SAN, has taken over the prosecution of the Commissioner for Insurance of the National Insurance Commission, Mr. Fola Daniel, before a Federal High Court, Lagos for offences of malicious misrepresentation of facts.

Recently relief came the way of the people of Okura in Dekina and those of Ankpa Local Government Areas when Governor Idris Wada moved his rural transformation train to flag off construction of roads in Ankpa and Dekina Local Government Area after several years of neglect.

Edo Forum, comprising leaders and traditional rulers from the three senatorial districts of Edo State, has commenced mobilisation ahead of the proposed national conference with a view to coming up with a position paper for the state.

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Transport, Mrs. Marie Ebikake, yesterday, said that the ministry has so far realised N140 million from the restoration taxis.

Hundreds of athletes from West Africa will tomorrow begin hostilities in Abuja at the 2nd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF) International Taekwondo Open.

The Nigerian – Turkish International College, NTIC, recently dazzled thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims across the country with meat and food items for the eid-l-adha celebration.

OIL and gas producing communities in Isoko ethnic nationality, Delta State, have disputed the divestment of OML 26 and 30 by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, to First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Limited and Shoreline Natural Resources Limited, respectively, in 2010 and 2012, saying that it was done in breach of extant provisions of the Petroleum Act.

THE Caretaker Committee of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Ward 4, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State, has denied the purported suspension of the Minority Leader of Delta State House of Assembly, representing Okpe council, Mr. Julius Okpoko and six others.