Experts here are tipping Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare for a possible gold medal in the 200m, going by her slow start and powerful finish.

Delta State governor, Dr.Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, was determined to check the challenge of oil theft in the country.

The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, yesterday, said efforts were on to rescue a crude oil-laden barge that ran aground in St. Nicholas River in Bayelsa State.

Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, stood still for several hours yesterday, as party faithful, interest groups and members of the public welcomed the newly registered mega- party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

After nearly two weeks of exchange of words with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, former Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, surrendered to the operatives of the commission in Abuja.

All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, said the party was the only platform that could rescue the people of Anambra State from the unfair leadership of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the last seven years.

It’s the kind of picture a sports photographer can only ever dream of: The sprinter Usain Bolt clinching gold as a lightning bolt illuminates the stormy skies above.

In a move to stem the tide of civilian massacre by terrorists in some parts of the North, the Nigerian Navy, yesterday, said it was time to change its warfare strategy,with a view to saving the defenceless populace.

*Lawmaker moves to disband commission
PORT HARCOURT — The five anti-Governor Rotimi Amaechi lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Monday, shunned the sitting of the Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government to investigate the recent fracas in the House of Assembly.

NIGERIAN medical professionals have applauded the early-stage clinical evaluation of an investigational malaria vaccine known as the PfSPZ Vaccine, conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health.

SON of late Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 presidential election, Mr. Abdul Abiola, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to declare June 12 as Nigerian Youth Day.

Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, Monday, described the merger of three political parties into the All Progressives Congress, APC, as unworkable, affirming the continuing hurt of the Yoruba people against the Hausa Fulani on account of the death in detention of Bashorun Moshood Abiola.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State and his Borno State counterpart, Alhaji Kassim Shettima, were among several dignitaries who visited Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, at Marina, State House, to condole with him on the death of his father, Alhaji Ibrahim Fashola, Pa Ademola Fashola, who died last Monday, in Lagos, at 80.

Police operatives from Ogui Division of the Nigeria police, Enugu State command have nabbed two suspects alleged to be involved in armed robbery and cultism within Ogui and its environs

UGHELLI – ALMAGAMATION of Oil Producing Communities Youths, AOPCY, has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Depot Manager, Warri Refinery, Delta State, Engr. Ali Abdallah, to release the 50 trucks of kerosene approved by the Managing Director of Products and Pipeline Marketing Company, PPMC, Mr. Haruna Mommoh, for communities affected by last year’s flood or its members would shut down oil facilities in the communities.