Niger State has never been listed among the top 10 teams at the National School Sports Festival, but as the screening of athletes for this year’s tournament begins on Thursday, November 22, in KwaraState, the team is poised to be among the top states at the end of the sports fiesta.

A witness, Okwunmo Nwabufo, 34, Wednesday told a Lagos High Court, Igbosere that he was tortured to make statements during investigation on the murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communi-cations Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, yesterday, in Bangkok, Thailand, highlighted the reasons why broadband penetration and services had been poor in Nigeria, challenging local and foreign investors to take advantage of the problems to invest in the Nigerian highly rewarding market.

Celebrations for Algeria’s victory over Burkina Faso that sent the country’s soccer team to the 2014 World Cup finals left 12 people dead and some 240 injured, authorities reported Wednesday.

The Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr Lawan Abubakar has described the media reports that the union had postponed its National Executive Committee meeting indefinitely as false and speculative.

The University of Jos has signed a memorandum of understanding, MOU, with a Ghanaian university and a British organization for the training of students in wildlife management.

WE are once again gathered in this magnificent edifice for yet another Ojude Oba Festival. Ojude Oba Festival as you are all aware, is an important event in our community as a people, being the only festival of its type celebrated in South-West, Nigeria by all and sundry without religious barrier and bequeathed to us by our forefathers centuries ago.

Following the controversies trailing last Saturday’s inconclusive governorship election in Anambra State, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has called for the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

In French, “Assizes” means lawyers having sittings to decide cases. When cases are decided on material benefits to members of the assizes as against duty to a nation then Nigeria is about to be conquered by materialism and in turn headed to breakdown of the system of trust.

An Oyo State High Court on Wednesday adjourned indefinitely the N11.5 billion contract award case against a former governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala, pending hearing of an appeal.

The Proprietor of Explosive Academy Independent School (EAIS) Abraka, Delta State, Mr. Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho has commended Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State on his concerted efforts towards combating juvenile crimes in Delta state. Aghogho who also lauded the Governor for signing the Delta State Child Rights Act into law in 2008, stated that the Law has tremendously helped in redirecting deviant children in the state.

Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles has re-launched its campaign featuring Indomie’s Indomitable cartoon characters.

The Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has blamed the inability of Nigeria Football Association (NFA) to pay the salary arrears of Super Eagles’ coach Stephen Keshi on “system problems’’.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday in Abuja approved the extension of emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe for another six months.

Four suicide car bombs struck Syrian regime targets Wednesday in the Qalamoun region near Lebanon, killing at least seven soldiers, a monitor and state news agency SANA said.