Team Nigeria’s duo of Esther Godwin and Ogeh Ogochukwu has been handed a tough challenge as the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF)-organised 2014 Youth Olympics Qualifiers kick off on today in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei.

THE Supervising Minister for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, has charged Vice Chancellors and Rectors of Federal Government institutions in the South South to ensure that they access funds released to them by government, so as to accelerate infrastructural development in universities and polytechnics in the region.

THE Director, Federal Highways (South-West), Alhaji Kabir Abdullahi, has said that the ongoing construction of a trailer park in Apapa, Lagos was 76 per cent completed

Fast-rising actress and former Miss Delta State, Lizzy Gold Onuwaje, started what turned out to be an uproar of sort last Sunday when she declared in an interview with Potpourri that she loves money so much, bank alerts turn her on. The actress, who is currently on top of game, is as blunt and honest as few actors would ever dare.

Ibikunle Amosun has assured the students and management of Ogun State College of Health Technology (OSCOTECH), Ilese-Ijebu of government support in its quest to blaze the trail in the training of middle-level manpower in the health care sector in Nigeria

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has called upon all students’ unions across tertiary institutions in the nation to condemn the participation of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at the ongoing national conference.

A prosecuting witness, Inspector Olumide Alagbe, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that former Divisional Police Officer of Pen Cinema, Agege, DSP Segun Fabunmi, shot 10 rounds of his AK-47 rifle, at a crowd during protests against fuel subsidy removal in January 9, 2012.

A prosecution witness in the on-going trial of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Mr. Bashir Abdullahi, yesterday, told the court that there was no missing funds during the tenure of the accused.

The Centre for Contemporary Art, (CCA), Yaba was always beehive of activities because of what the centre offers to the art community, but last Friday was a different ball game as people from all works of life, art collectors, patrons, artists, students, alumni of the University of Nigeria, Fine and Applied Art department and art lovers gathered at the centre during the opening ceremony of a special exhibition to celebrate, a teacher, sculptor and one described as one of the most exciting contemporary visual artists from Africa, El Anatsui and his monumental works as he turned 70.

FOLLOWING the raid on his campaign office by men from the Oyo State police command on Tuesday, Mr. Seyi Makinde, a governorship aspirant in 2015 election in the state has accused the state government of sponsoring a petition against him that he was keeping arms in his office.

JUSTICE Peter Agumagu, was, yesterday, sworn in as the new Chief Judge for Rivers State by the state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Osun State has advised the citizens of the state to shun and disregard PDP agents that are allegedly going about in Osun cities accusing Governor Rauf Aregbesola of “not empowering people since he became governor.”

AT the popular Mobil Petrol Station on Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, five vehicles that were on a queue and another truck that brought in fresh supply of fuel were, yesterday, consumed in a fire incident in which one person was critically injured.

The Minister of Sports, Dr. Tamuno Danagogo, has called on parents to encourage their wards to take active part in school sports.

Clearing agents operating in Apapa port have attributed their protest which led to the shutting down of the weekend to activities of Customs Intelligence Unit, CIU, who they accused of conniving with their counterparts in the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, to detain their containers.