Germany’s Lahm to end international career
Germany captain Philipp Lahm, who led his country to a World Cup triumph in Brazil, is to quit international football, his agent told the DPA news agency on Friday.
Senate embarks on 8 weeks’ vacation, resumes plenary Sept 16
THE Senate yesterday proceeded on eight weeks’ annual vacation to resume plenary September 16.
Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, had moved a motion for the adjournment for the Senate to embark on its long annual vacation but also noted that committee work would continue to enable committees tidy up their work for consideration at a special plenary slated for next Thursday, July 24.
Igbo group slams ACF’s position on civil war reparation to Ndigbo
Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has said that the objection being raised by Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, against the demand by Ohanaeze Ndigbo that the federal government pay N2.6 trillion to Ndigbo as civil war reparation was sabotage against national unity.
Give S-East federal presence as reparation—Gov Orji
ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has said that any reparation to be paid to the South East geo-political zone to make up for civil war damages, should be done through significant federal presence in the region.
We’ve no plan to impeach Oshiomhole —PDP
THE Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, has said that it was not interested in the alleged move to impeach Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, noting that the governor was free to do the work for which he was elected by the people.
Jonathan charges Bayelsa to diversify economic base
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, called on the Bayelsa State Government not to depend on oil alone for sustenance, but to diversify its economic base.
