Ghana will start their pre-tournament camping for the World Cup in May, a Ghana FA senior executive George Afriyie has said.

The United States Public Affairs Section in partnership with National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and Gordon Barrett have charged Corps members, who have been identified as potential leaders, to build a prestigious network of young African leaders at the forefront of change and innovation in their respective disciplines.

THE Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, LIE, has had its fair share of unearned attention from the controversies surrounding repairs of the road commissioned 36 years ago. It has degenerated to a stage that its motorable portions are like seeing oasis in the desert.

ADMITTEDLY, our relationship with the West has been defined by undue duplicity. Close to 54 years of our so-called independence, we are still largely in chains. Nigeria’s annual Balance Sheet is perhaps still prepared in Washington, DC. Even in the area of our much touted oil wealth, when the multi-nationals sneeze, Nigeria catches cold because they hold the key to the industry.

RENOWNED painter and printmaker, Kunle Adeyemi has been working seriously towards the growth of the visual art in Nigeria.

The Director of TRC Colleges (UK) University Foundation Programme, Mr Keith Broomer has guaranteed entry of Nigerian students to its partner universities in UK/USA/CAN and RUSSIA which will run at two top Nigerian boarding schools from January 2014. He said that after due process and consultations, Whiteplains British School in Abuja and other centres that will soon be named as centres in Nigeria.

BAUCHI— Pregnant
women residing in rural areas of Bauchi State have accused nurses and doctors of molesting them during delivery, saying that the situation has increased the rate of mother and child mortality.
Vanguard investigation shows that most of the pregnant women residing in villages like Bayara, Turum, Durum and Kangare are unhappy with treatment they get from the various hospitals leading to complications during delivery.
At the Bayara Specialist Hospital in Bauchi, a pregnant woman and a mother of three, Aishatu Danladi complained of the maltreatment she received from some of the nurses during her first delivery, describing her experience as very traumatic.
According to her, “during my first delivery I had a very nasty experience because of the way some of the nurses treated me.
“When the labour started, I was rushed to the hospital by my husband but when we arrived at the theatre, they abandoned me, telling me that they had other patients to attend to.”
Aishatu said that she resolved never to attend any ante-natal service again, but to have her babies at home like her fellow women in the villages.
For Zuwaira Musa, she agreed with her husband to give birth at home because of the ill-treatment by nurses and doctors during labour.
“I have six children and I gave birth to all of them at home. I resolved to giving birth at home because of the way the nurses treat people like animals
“.I don’t think I deserve to be treated in such a way”.
In her reaction, the chief matron of the ante-natal unit in Bayara Specialist Hospital. Mrs Lious Danladi refuted the allegation that nurses maltreat pregnant women during delivery, saying it is false and does not correspond with the ethics of the medical profession.

A coalition of 21 Igbo youth organisations is planning a rally in Umuahia, Abia State capital to drum up support for the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 election.
The youths also said that similar efforts would be carried out to ensure the state Governor, Theodore Orji, over his desire to contest the Abia Central Senatorial seat

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West have called for the immediate reinstatement of the removed National Secretary of the party; Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, National Auditor; Chief Bode Mustapha and Zonal Chairman; Chief Segun Oni.

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced Godwin Nwaichie to 14 years imprisonment after he admitted committing a N14.7 million fraud.