Coach Samson Siasia has warned his Olympic Team players who featured for their clubs during African club competition matches during the weekend to report to camp in Abuja latest by today.

As part of an orderly succession plan balancing stability with fresh perspective, the Board of Standard Chartered Plc has announced a comprehensive package of changes to its Board. Current Group Chief Executive Peter Sands is to stand down from the Board, giving way to William Thomas Winters (“Bill”) as the new Group Chief Executive with his appointment to the Board taking effect in June 2015.

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has invested N80billion ($400million) to set up a cement plant in Kenya through East Africa Portland Cement Company (EAPCC). Dangote entered Kitui County’s limestone mines through the Kenya’s local cement in order to open $400 million, representing Sh34.8 billion Kenyan currency in Kitui County, Kenya.

WARRI—Delta State Police Command has barred both the Chief Joe Omeme and Chief Tuesday Onoge factions of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, from holding any gathering at the Uvwiamughe national secretariat of the Urhobo apex leadership organ.

Member of the NFF Executive Committee and former chairman of the Technical and Development Committee, Barrister Chris Green is at the head of a 19 –man contingent traveling to the United Kingdom on Monday for a two –week capacity building exercise, at the instance of Nigeria Football Federation,

Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and Globacom have signed a pact to empower 17 million Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SMEs) in the country. Officials of the two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the partnership at Globacom office in Lagos.

CALABAR— An attempt by a suspect to disarm a police corporal in Calabar, weekend, ended in the death of the Policeman, while colleagues of the dead policeman also gunned down the suspect.

THE issue of deployment of troops for elections in Nigeria has been an enduring dialectic in the annals of our democracy. Many chroniclers of the crises that led to the truncation of our democracy in the First and Second Republics have often blamed military intervention on the use soldiers to manipulate elections.

Youths and Women empowerment efforts in the Niger Delta region has received a new fillip as Development and Leadership Institute (DLI), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), recently sealed a major partnership agreement with University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, (UAPB) United States.

Lagos — An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Oyingbo, Lagos State has remanded an oil marketer, Otunba Aremu Lola-Anjorin, in prison custody pending when he is able to meet his bail applications over alleged N36.7 million fraud.

The Federal Government directives to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ,NCAA, to remove and ground all foreign aircraft registered in the private category that are listed on the Operations Specifications (Ops Specs) Part G of some Air Operator Certificate holders takes effect this week.

Shareholders of Nestle Nigeria Plc will have their final dividend for the year ended December 31, 2014 slashed by 27 percent, if the amount being proposed by the Board of Directors is approved at the next Annual General Meeting, AGM, in three months’ time.

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State, Chief Kainji Obia, has said that the Accord Party is part of the PDP in Delta State, adding that he has, therefore, been campaigning for the victory of the Accord Party candidate for the House of Representatives, Ika constituency, Doris Uboh and Victor Ochei for Senate, Delta North senatorial district.

AN Urhobo activist, Comrade Ede Emuobonuvie has thrown his weight behind the candidature of Hon. Halims Agoda, All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidate for Delta Central, saying his vision for the senatorial district remains the best.

AN activist, Comrade Sunny Eke, has described the submissions of Chief O’tega Emerhor in the course of his interview published in Saturday Vanguard of February 28 as the right sort of vision badly needed in Delta State at the present point in time.