Gombe, the GombeState capital will be abuzz with activities as stakeholders in sports gather for the Annual General Meeting of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, tomorrow.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has set up a peace and conflict resolution committee with a mandate to reconcile and mediate between warring communities in the state.

Wireless backhaul specialist, Ceragon Network Limited has announced the introduction of its new generation of packet radio solutions, called Fi beAir IP-200C.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has ordered the construction of five pedestrian bridges along Lagos Epe Expressway in the state.

The lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has taken its toll on the University of Lagos, where a final year student of Actuarial Science, Mr Ayinde Kehinde Monsuru 32, has been reported missing.

The kidnappers of Pa Uroh Tempurah, father of Bayelsa State Commissioner for Tourism Development, Mr. Nelson Belief, have demanded for N98 million ransom to set him free.

The National Assembly took over the functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly almost four months ago. The action may have stopped the steep decline to Armageddon, but following that what else?

Magistrate Sule Hamzat of an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos, has struck out the rape charge against a 22-year-old undergraduate of Caleb University, Lagos, Ugochukwu Agudosi.

Nobody with some knowledge of Nigerian politics would be surprised by the outcome of the so-called election that took place in Anambra on November 16. The result of the charade which has been declared inconclusive by INEC was always going to end up as such.

THE Zamfara Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the stealing of 20 camels, weekend, by suspected gunmen at Kawaye village of Anka Local Government Area of the state.

ASIDE the consistent cries by concerned Nigerians over the grave danger posed by the innumerable fuel-laden articulated vehicles that daily invade Kirikiri town, a suburb of Lagos State, without regard to safety of residents of the area, Crime Alert has unearthed a greater danger posed to the country’s foremost prisons located in the area.

By November 2010 when the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola took over the baton, Osun was barely a year less than two decades. What the entire state could boast of in internally generated revenue (IGR) in almost twenty years was no more than N300 million every month at the very highest. Records indicate it fell short of that many times.

Association for Non-Violence in the Niger Delta, ANND, has warned persons and groups attacking the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, to desist forthwith or face its wrath.

KADUNA State Government, yesterday, said it would train 7,600 youths and women in various skills under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P.

MANY Nigerians are often quick to blame government for their travails, which they readily attribute to the failings associated with a faulty system. As far as they are concerned, the postulation of the late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, that the problems of Nigeria are traceable to poor leadership, holds true in most cases, including the most trivial.