Nigeria captain Vincent Enyeama has admitted he was unhappy with the choice of venue for Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at home against Chad due to violent unrest in the state.

If the first week of Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State is anything to go by then the people of the State should brace themselves up for some fast paced action and decisive leadership.

The world’s first commercial waste-to-protein fly farm is nearing completion in Cape Town and by ‘herd size’ will be the largest farming operation on the planet. As part of its commitment to ongoing research and development in the emerging nutrient recycling industry, AgriProtein Group has launched an initial five-year Research & Development programme to drive its ongoing process improvement work as well as to spearhead research for the group globally.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has promised to tackle the problem of multiple taxations in the state.

A defence counsel, Mr. Worer Obuagbaka, has told an Ikeja High Court that there was no victim in an attempted armed robbery charge brought against two persons by Lagos State Government.

It was the standout phrase from President Muhammadu Buhari’s Inauguration Day speech on May 29, 2015: “I belong to everybody, I belong to nobody”. The phrase went viral, triggering an output of comical expressions.

Akure—BARELY 24 hours after government presented staff of office to the new Deji of Akureland, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi, he has commenced traditional rites that will keep him incommunicado. The traditional ruler has proceeded to his root that is Ayere village in Akure North area of the state where he will stay for some days .

ABEOKUTA—The vice-chancellor of the Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof. Ibraheem Gbajabiamila has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a national emergency in the nation’s education sector, in order to correct the challenges confronting the sector in the country.

Osogbo—No fewer than 236 members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners NUP, Osun State chapter have lost their lives this year following the inability of the state government to pay their pension and gratuity. This was made known yesterday when members of the union staged a peaceful protest to the State House of Assembly and major streets in Osogbo.

A socio-political group, South East Progressives Assembly, SEPA, has berated the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, describing the party as an association of strange bedfellows and wounded political foes who clearly lacked coherence and ideology to effect the much desired change they promised in Nigeria.

UYO—As part of efforts toward industrialising Akwa Ibom State, the state governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, has ordered the re-designing of Uyo, the capital city, to ease traffic flow in and out of the state.

PREDICTIONS that contests for leadership of the National Assembly would unravel the All Progressives Congress, APC, were certainly under-stated. In a matter of weeks, APC is moving from its confident strides to learning that toddlers do not break into full strides – with first steps. In what was supposed to be the most innocuous contentions in APC, in one swoop APC lost two critical positions to its change agenda.

Three pupils from Founders International Academy, including 11-year-old Retji Cishak, a grade five pupil, came top in the 12th Annual National Mathematics competition organized by the Nigeria-Turkish International Colleges and the National Mathematics Centre, Abuja.

A member of Friends of Mary Missional Sisters Congregation sect of the Catholic Church, Rev Sister Mary Providential Nkeiruka Okoli, who was kidnapped in Bayelsa State has been rescued in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, by operatives of Department of State Services, DSS, after 17 days in captivity.

Nsukka — A veteran journalist, John Akor, has been crowned as the king of Nimbo Community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, Akor, who worked with the defunct National Concord Newspapers, received his staff of office as the Agaba Idu of Nimbo, from the immediate past administration of Governor Sullivan Chime in his Nimbo Community through the then Commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs, Pastor Emeka Abugu.