Wife of the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mrs Rachael Dickson, yesterday, said parents have a role to play in changing the age long perception about girl-child education.

KOKO—ITSEKIRI and Ijaw political leaders in Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State, have brokered an accord on the chairmanship seat of the council for the October 25 polls in the state.

Alex Eyengho, member of the Ugborodo Interface Committee on the Ogidigben Export Processing Zone Project speaks to Vanguard’s Egufe Yafugborhi in Warri on the continued unrest in Ugborodo and Gbaramatu Ijaw’s discontent on the coming $16B Gas City project.

Reference Nigeria, a weekly newspaper with an online version at www.referencenigeria.com, has made a historic entry into the Nigerian newspaper market

Lagos—A 51-year-old pastor, Sunday Akintayo, has been arraigned before a Lagos chief magistrate’s court sitting in Ebute-Metta over indecent assault of a seven-year-old girl.

Lagos State government has absorbed 880 Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, officials into the state civil service as part of ongoing restructuring in the organisation aimed at repositioning it for better service delivery.

National carrier, Globacom has introduced Glo Jolof, a product that offers subscribers the lowest recharge option in the country at N25 with three minutes of call time and three sms thus lowering the barrier for Nigerian telecommunication subscribers to make calls at affordable rates.

Kano State Government said, Monday, it had expended $1.2 million to sponsor 90 indigenes of the state to study health related degrees at Mansoura and 6th October Universities in Egypt.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Warri South constituency 1 in the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Robinson Ariyo, has said that he will consult regularly with his constituents with a view to making them part of development process and policy decisions if elected into the Assembly in 2015.

Former Chairman of Ethiope West Local Government and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Dr. Odafe Omene, has said that Delta North has no moral justification to argue for the governorship seat of Delta State, adding that the position should rotate between Delta Central and South

IJAW youths in Gelegele community of Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State have threatened to shut down the operations of Dubril Oil operating in the area, if the Federal and state governments failed to stop the gas flaring, which has allegedly led to deaths of some members of the community.

Côte d’Ivoire’s charismat ic skipper Didier Drogba announced his international retirement on Friday, after earning 104 caps and scoring a record 65 goals for his country between 2002 and 2014.

CHURCH of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has announced some adjustments in the conduct of its holy communion service, as part of its plans to curb the menace of Ebola Virus in the country.

Just hours after he bust out of a high-security prison as it was rocked by mortar blasts in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, Natalya Nikitenko drove her son right back to jail.