Jigawa State government has approved N650 million contract for the construction of accommodation facilities at Manpower Development Institute, MDI, Dutse, the state capital.

MARE festival in Idanre, ondo state which has become a yearly ‘pilgrimage’ witnessed an unprecedented traffic into Ondo state this year as both the high and low came from within and outside the state to celebrate God given cultural heritage.

THE General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye Thursday spentdeclared that Vanguard Newspapers remains his number one newspaper. He made the remark during a visit to the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Limited in Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos where he ministered at the 2014 edition of the Vanguard Media Christian Fellowship end-of-year thanksgiving service themed: “Divine blessing and prophetic breakthrough”.

Football’s world governing body, FIFA, has quashed any hopes Iyke Igbokwe and Okechukwu Ajunwa may have harboured regarding the former’s petition against Amaju Pinnick’s election as President of the Nigeria Football Federation after insisting on upholding the earlier decision reached by the majority of the NFF’s Electoral and Appeals Committee.

IN another development, Enugu State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Senator Ayogu Eze, yesterday traded words over alleged forgery of the party’s December 8, 2014 governorship primaries result sheet.

Justice EvohChukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, ordered the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to submit or accept anyone as the governorship candidate of the party till January 14.

The Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity on Thursday in Abuja, met with oil workers union NUPENG and PENGASSAN over the three days warning strike.

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday urged Nigerians not to see themselves as “Northern“ or “Southern“ citizens, but as people and a race bound by the same history and constitution.

New post-mortem tests claim Cameroonian footballer Albert Ebosse died in Algeria as a result of a beating rather than being hit by a projectile.

The 2014 OML 58 football tournament is in its second week and lots of matches have been decided between the sixteen communities that are vying for honours.