Carlo Ancelotti has said Real Madrid must get off to a confident start at Bayern Munich in Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final, second leg, in their quest for a historic win.

Governor Seriake Dickson yesterday inaugurated a state security outfit code named Bayelsa State Volunteers with a membership of 1000 youths to complement the efforts of other security outfits in reducing crimes and other related vices in the state.

The much-anticipated Nigeria’s edition of Editors Lab Hackdays by the Global Editors Network, GEN, begins today at Vanguard Newspapers, Lagos.

ACADEMIC Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, are set to embark on a street protest today to pile pressures on Federal Government to respect the agreement reached with both unions.

HOUSE of Representatives yesterday through its Spokesman, Zakari Mohammed said the House was still studying an order restraining them from continuing the probe of an alleged N10billion jet charter services scam by Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke.

80 per cent of contractors who do business with the federal government tender forged documents, the Director -General, D-G, of the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, Engr .Emeka Ezeh disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday.

THESE are trying times for the Church of Jesus Christ in Nigeria and heaven demands of leaders, to provide sound and credible spiritual leadership for the church. The final outcome of the present crisis confronting the church shall be determined by the decisions that leaders of the church take.

APRIL 14, terrorists abducted school girls from a government school in Chibok, Borno State. We are still debating how many they are. The rescue efforts were futile enough for the parents of the victims to dare Sambisa Forest, on their own.

My humble submission is that our political leaders have persevered with yesterday’s solutions largely
because our elite have not properly diagnosed and corrected some of the most important mistakes that
the country made at various points in our history and many of which continue to haunt us.

VIce-Admiral Murtala Nyako is the Governor of Adamawa State. He was once Governor of Niger State. He was formerly Chief of Naval Staff of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

LAGOS—Youths, under the aegis of Kibaku Youth Association of Nigeria, KYAN, yesterday, stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to protest the continued abduction of 234 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok Local Government, Borno State by the Boko Haram insurgents and called for their immediate release.

Former President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani Lulu has denied allegations of fixing matches ahead of qualification for the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

Despite the availability of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, some filling stations in some parts of Lagos continue to sell the product above federal government’s approved regulated pump price of N97 per litre, investigation revealed.

Weststar Associates Nigeria Ltd, authorised general distributors of Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge brands in Nigeria has taken the Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, segment by storm with the introduction of world class products from their stable.

Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark and Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State have incurred the wrath of the governors of Yobe and Adamawa states for asking President Goodluck Jonathan to dismantle democratic structures in the North-East to pave way for a full military takeover.