MultiChoice Nigeria, the leading provider of premium pay-TV services on the DStv and GOtv platforms has extended its major Corporate Social Investment project in the education sector, the MultiChoice Resource Centre (MRC) initiative, which it started in 2004 to 10 additional public secondary schools in Bayelsa Sate.
The CSR initiative, which kicked-off in Abuja and Lagos State will avail students of 10 public schools in Bayelsa State access to world-class learning facilities.

Manchester United’s desperate season met with fresh degradation on Wednesday as they sensationally lost on penalties to Sunderland in the League Cup semi-finals at Old Trafford.

An investigative officer with the Economic and Finmancial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdullahi Mohammed, yesterday, claimed that an oil marketer, Rowaye Jubril, only sourced the petroleum product locally for which he obtained N963.7 million subsidy payment from the Federal Government.

The House of Representatives Wednesday urged the federal government to establish grazing routes for cattle rearers in all the six-geopolitical zones of the country.

THE lingering crisis in Abavo community in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, has taken a new dimension, as the state police command, has accused the traditional ruler of the community, of allegedly fueling the latest hostility by raising false alarm that his mother had been kidnapped.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, sacked the state Commissioner for Sports, Mrs Omorede Osifo, replacing her with Mr Chris Okaiben, former chairman, Petroleum Committee.

Scores of aggrieved people from Atta, Ikeduru local government area of Imo State, have appealed to the state government and the Nigeria Police to fish out and punish those who murdered Chief Brendan Oguine.

A GROUP known as Delta Group for Political Inclusion and Grassroots Mobilisation, has urged the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to remain focused in his political aspirations.

DELTA State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, faulted the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr. Ovuozourie Macaulay, for saying that he was not aware of any agreement between the Anioma and other parts of the state for a power shift.

PRIOR to his predicted ouster last Thursday, erstwhile national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was seen–rightly or wrongly – as the clog in the wheel of the party’s progress. The all-powerful governors within the party never hid their distaste for his style of leadership and they never refrained from saying that it was anything but democratic. The plot for his ouster could have been as old as his tenure as national chairman, a position he assumed in March 2012. With time, the subtle sabotage turned into open threats to his leadership; with five of them eventually making good that threat by quitting to join the opposition All Progressives Congress.

Northern Nigeria Youth Council, NNYC, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for appointing Major General Kenneth Minimah as the new Chief of Army Staff, COAS.
The group, therefore, called on all political stakeholders across ethnic divides to support the new COAS in the interest of national unity.

The bus conductor of the Ojuelegba-bound commuter bus was busy calling passengers and collecting fares at the popular Boundary market in AJ city (Ajegunle) Lagos this Thursday evening when a lady in uniform got on the bus. It was a herculean task getting on the bus because of her plus size and the fact that the bus was a small bus.

Lagos State government has concluded plans to release the first batch of the newly introduced Electronic Certificate of Occupancy, E-C of O, aimed at improving security of land management in the state.
Permanent Secretary of Lands Bureau, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, disclosed this at a media briefing to announce the official launch of the E-C at Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja,

AHEAD of it 2014 national conference, the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has reemphasized its commitment to facilitating the emergence of a knowledge based Nigeria.

Activities in many Federal Government Hospitals were paralysed today as doctors commenced the three-day warning strike ordered by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU).