In the other cadre of the election, chairman of the technical committee of the immediate past board Barr. Christopher Green polled 26 votes to defeat his rival Oswald Atueke from Cross River State.

LAGOS—Access to Justice, AJ, a Human Rights group, has called on the government to ensure that those who were involved in the alleged assault of a High Court judge in Ekiti State, Justice John Adeyeye, did not go unpunished.

About five of Nigeria’s interconnect exchange carriers have been commended for recording over one billion minutes in traffic on the World Telecom Labs, WTL’s 2nd generation VoIP switches.

Anioma Congress, the apex socio-political organisation of Delta North senatorial district, Delta State, has denied media reports that it had endorsed a particular aspirant for the 2015 governorship position.

A former Vice Chancellor of University of Benin, UNIBEN, Prof. Andrew Onokerhoraye, has described as baseless, the reasons given by the institution for stripping him of his appointment as Professor Emeritus .

ADO-EKITI—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to see to the inauguration of Chief Ayo Fayose as the next governor of Ekiti State later this month, saying the party would not be deterred by what it described as the antics of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Nigeria will be through with the testing ground for home made satellite by 2015. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama made this promise in Abuja during a familiarization tour to the National Air Space and Research Development Agency, NASRDA and National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA.

DominicIorfa stormed out of the Golden Tulip Hotel, venue of the Elective Congress of the NFF the moment he saw the handwriting on the wall. Delta FA Chairman Pinnick Amaju Melvin had been declared the winner of the elections after he sailed through with a run-off votes of 32 over Iorfa’s eight votes and Taiwo Ogunjobi’s four votes.

At 54, Nigeria has come of age as a mature sovereign nation. As the country marks another independence day today, stakeholder’s say the sector has witnessed some level of improvement especially in the area of polio which has been successfully reduced by 95 percent between 2013 and 2014.

PORT HARCOURT— Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Steve Oru, has called for collaboration between his ministry and the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in the development of the region.