The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is not likely to renew Stephen Keshi’s contract as Super Eagles manager after the summer World Cup in Brazil irrespective of the team’s performance.

IN the Sudan, they are known as the Janjaweed, which in Arabic, is said to mean “spirits on horseback”. The dominant Arab regimes in the country responded to increasing armed struggles for self-determination by the Negroid indigenous minorities in the Darfur, western and southern Sudan by arming nomadic Arab pastoralists to attack and terrorise villages owned by farmers. The farmers and pastoralists had been historically locked in tussles over land down the ages.

WARRI—MR. Ebikeme Clark, son of Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, who was kidnapped last week in Delta State, has been released.

Observers have been on the look out to see how leaders of the APC, a party that emerged from the ashes of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), new PDP, will hammer out a united front and have seamless congresses.

The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has taken his on-going war against crime in the state to a different level as he drags a world famous Israeli security expert, Moshe Keinan, to the state’s first security summit holding April 10 and 11 this year.

Medical experts have raised alarm over increasing cases of a hazardous health condition known as Endometriosis in women whichcauses unbearable pain during the menstrual cycle of women but is wrongly diagnosed by most doctors.

ABUJA — FORMER Senate President, Nnamani Ken, has disclosed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will fill a candidate for governorship of Enugu State in the 2015 general election from the northern part of the state.

The fact is that this same World Bank recently promoted Nigeria from a low income ranking to a medium income ranking economy in recognition of what it called ‘ efforts of government in reducing the level of endemic poverty in the country.

The challenge facing Nigeria today is not being tackled at the roots. It seems the symptoms are what those in position of authority are chasing after. It is like chasing shadows.

ADO EKITI—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has postponed the planned visit of President Goodluck Jonathan for the flag off of the campaign of its gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Ayodele Fayose.

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has challenged the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, to declare the seat of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State vacant, following his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has called on the Federal Government to ensure efficient and effective security system that promotes business/investment climate, as well as guarantees lives and properties of the citizens.

Chief Wole Timeyin, husband of the slain retired magistrate, Olufunmilayo, said yesterday that his wife’s killer had laid siege in their compound for 24 hours before he struck.

DERIVATION principle to be applicable to all revenues, including Value Added Tax (VAT)”.
A revenue allocation formula that takes cognizance of items on first line draw; and shift of items on the Exclusive and Residual list to the Concurrent list.

Two persons, described by the police as notorious robbers, were killed in Nsukka, Enugu State, on Saturday when they engaged security men in a gun battle.