FORMER national chairman of Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM, Charles Ayemi-Botu, Pere of Siembiri Kingdom in Delta State, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to step on toes, if necessary, to review the lopsided ownership of oil blocs by Northerners.

MEMBERS of the New-life Community Development Association, in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, are spoiling for war against one of the top government officials, resident in the area over erection of wall on what used to be an access road at Olufemi Ogunshola Street in the area.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has commended the military for its role in the fight against kidnapping and other social vices in the state.

Women all over the globe will converge in groups today to discuss issues that affect women, with topics as diverse and far reaching as culture, politics, the economy, personal development, health, power, family, marriage, domestic violence, migration and many many more.

Israel-based goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama tops a list of 15 overseas-based professionals that Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has invited for this month’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the Harambee Stars of Kenya.

The panel set up by the Nigeria Football Federation to resolve the contract war over Super Eagles star, Sunday Mba, has told the feuding clubs, Rangers International and Warri Wolves to go and sort out the matter before Monday or else they would come out with their ruling.

MORE ripples over the involvement of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State with the newly formed All Progressives’Congress erupted, Thursday, with the governor’s party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, raising the alarm that the Presidency was plotting to unseat Okorocha and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Benjamin Uwajimogu.

Former Africa queen of the tracks and member of the Local Organising Committee for the 1st African Junior Athletics Championships, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi has said Nigeria would strive to successfully host to win.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that his government will not grant amnesty to members of the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, as demanded by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and some Northern groups.

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ABUJA—TWO months after the ill-fated Nigerian Navy Augusta helicopter air crash in Bayelsa State that claimed the lives of six persons including former Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and former National Security Adviser, General Owoye Andrew Azazi, the Accident and Investigation Board (AIB) set up to investigate the crash has submitted its report.