Nigerians deployed to Rwanda for volunteers services under the Federal Government’s Technical Aid Corps (TAC) programme on Monday pledged to use their experience to help rebuild the war-torn country.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has challenged the former Deputy Governor of the state, Mr Gabriel Toby, to point at any project he executed for his Opobo people throughout the eight years he served as deputy governor .

The leadership of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to, in the spirit of forgiveness, justice, love and reconciliation, release 35 members of the group detained in Awka and Onitsha prisons since April 2007.

Russian-born Nigerian tennis star, Melissa Ifidzhen will be the centre of attraction this morning as she confront Henrietta Ogude in a first round match at the ongoing 37th Central Bank of Nigeria Open Tennis Championship holding at the National Stadium, Lagos.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has donated large quantities of relief materials approved for distribution to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, living in various camps and host families in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Chairman of the Marketing and Sponsorship Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, High Chief Emeka Inyama has blasted a report in a section of the press loaded with unhealthy insinuations concerning the Federation’s recent kit sponsorship contract with American sportswear giants, NIKE.

THE Management of Ikeja Electric has blamed the current very poor power supply situation across its network to low power allocation from the National Grid. The Chief Executive Officer, of the distribution company, Mr. Abiodun Ajifowobaje, was quoted as saying in a statement that in the last one week, the average power allocation to Ikeja Electric is 350 megawatts, MW, against minimum load demand of 1,250MW.

A right advocacy organization, Coalition for Right Judiciary and Equal Rights, CRJER, has called on the President-elect, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to handle with care, any appointment that had expired tenure, noting that, “arbitrary termination of such appointment will not do his administration any good.”

THE feud between the president of the Students Union Government of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Mr. Noble Eyisi and the management of the institution has taken a new dimension with the former accusing the latter of an attempt to expel him from the university for championing the cause of students.

Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom today at the on- going meeting of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum at the moment at Lagos/Osun Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja which have in attendance about fifteen governors from both factions i.e. the Jang and Amachi faction, sat beside Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers.

VETERAN broadcaster and founder of Civil Empowerment and Rule of Law Support Initiative, Mr. Cally Ikpe in this interview says that despite the myriad of challenges awaiting the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, the incoming administration would be a people’s government. He also explained why he championed a suit challenging those against the usage of Smart Card Readers

Seyi Akinwunmi, Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA), on Monday said that the body had performed creditably to boost football development in the state.

Isaac Success has broken his silence on the reason behind his failure to attend the Nigeria Under 20s get-together in Germany despite the relatively short flight distance between Isaac Success

Super Falcons forward Stella Mbachu has pleaded with the incumbent president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to fulfill his promised grand reception for the side before leaving office on May 29.

One of the UK’s largest home and garden retailers, Homebase has deployed IBM Commerce to provide highly personalized shopping experiences designed to meet the needs of online shoppers.