A forum of the South West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers has called on the Inspector General of Police and management of other security agencies in the country to provide adequate security during the August 9 governorship election in Osun State to avoid violence.

Lagos State Government yesterday said over N87 million on infrastructure and victims of April 13, 2014 rain storm in Surulere area of the state, whose roofs were either damaged or completely blown off by the thunderstorm as well as owners of defective buildings.

His routine at Urhobo College Effurun was folklore among his students for several years and even those who never met him at school were regaled with the stories of the man. Professor David Okpako was one of those who studied under my father, a few years after the school was founded. Professor Okpako recalls in an article published in the Urhobo Historical Society’s waado.org:

The recent recommendation by the House of Representatives concerning cement standardisation which tallied with a recent recommendation by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has generated a huge controversy among cement manufacturers and key industry stakeholders. This dust is not unexpected, given the pivotal role played by cement in the nation’s construction industry.

ONE hundred days after the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram terrorists, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, met with parents of the girls. At the closed-door meeting were 53 of the girls, who had earlier escaped from their abductors as well as representatives of Chibok community and other stakeholders.

Ogun State has recorded 100 percent coverage on Routine Immunisation in 2013, surpassing the national target of 85 percent set by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, with development partners.

The Vanguard of Monday, July 14, 2014 carried three full page advertorials on one issue: the impasse at the National Conference over a proper derivation formula. The Committee on Devolution of Powers, whose report was the last to be debated at plenary, had recommended retaining the 13% in General Abacha’s 1999 Constitution against the Northern delegates’ insistence on reducing it to 5%.

DEPUTY National Chairman of the Senators Forum, Senator John Brambaifa, has distanced himself from media reports that the North was plotting to kill the yet-to-be presented National Conference report.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun, has warned PDP governorship aspirants of Ibadan extraction not to jeopardise the political fortune of the party by their call for an Ibadan man to be the candidate of the party.

Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC) Dr. Tamuno Danagogo has revealed that he has a presidential mandate to ensure an end to the incessant crisis that has been rocking Nigerian football in recent years.