Alhaji Mumakai-Unagha is the National Publicity Secretary of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU). A legal practitioner, in this interview , he narrates how the Urhobo nation was deprived during the Jonathan years and speaks on the crisis in the Urhobo Progress Union.

In a bid to address the lack of access to basic services which has long been identified as a major challenge facing orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in the country, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) on a five-year project that would benefit 151,271 OVCs and 30,254 families in three states, including Lagos State.

Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, has thrown a challenge to youths in the country on the need to engage in activities that will ensure meaningful and productive use of their time during the summer break. Ambode gave the advice on Monday, at the opening of ‘Activate Youth Camp’, a 7-day free residential camping for about 200 youths, organized by a non-governmental organisation at Reagan Memorial School, Sabo Yaba.

The twenty-one year old representing Ebonyi State who promised to uphold the dignity of girls and women and values of African-Nigerian culture in her present status, took a tour to some notable places within Lagos to seek their collaboration towards achieving the actualisation of her pet projects.

The four committees on the operationalization of Federal Government storage and Agro Processing facilities Resuscitation of Cotton, Textile and Garments, strategic Action Plan for the Development of Grazing Reserves and Stock Routes Nationwide and Revitalization of Agricultural Extension Services in Nigeria, made far reaching recommendations based on their terms of reference.

WEAKENED by delusion and battered by technology, the university world is going through a difficult period generally. At a deeper level, less obvious to the lay observer, disquiet is spreading among dons, together with a degree of dissatisfaction among students even more profound than their occasional speculators seem to indicate, in almost all universities across the world.

THE National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday, raised an alarm over the danger of heavy flooding in states and communities along the River Benue following information from Cameroon that it plans to release excess water from the Ladgo dam.

SUNSHINE Stars are back on top of the Nigeria league table after a 2-0 win over Sharks at the Akure Township stadium on Thursday.

Investors who lose money as a result of wrong doing by certain stockbroking firms licensed by the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, now have cause to smile as the Board of Trustees of Investors Protection Fund, IPF, of the exchange has approved N42.227 million to compensate 158 claimants.

Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Kogi State, Mr. Kayode Olowomoran in this interview in this interview downplayed calls for power to shift to another Senatorial District in the state, noting if re-elected, the governor would do that after his second term in office.

President Muhammadu Buhari and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators were last night engaged in a war of words over alleged biases in the administration’s war against corruption. The PDP senators particularly accused the administration of partisanship in the anti-graft war with allegations that security agencies were coercing election officials to rewrite reports in some states to the favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

As part of its project for the 2015/2016 calendar year, the Lions District 404A-1 has finalised plans to partner with an eye foundation to undertake one thousand cataract surgeries. This was revealed by the newly elected District Governor, 404A-1, Lion Patricia Udeme recently while speaking to newsmen in Lagos.

LAGOS—The 45-year-old commercial driver, Saturday Akpomose, who was attacked by seven dogs at Ajah area of Lagos State, has received N30,000 and a job offer from the owner of the dogs.

The Nation-Wide League One (NLO) yesterday in Abuja unveiled the proprietor of Premier league side Ifeanyi Ubah FC, Chief Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah as its patron, just as it equally unveiled four former Super Eagles players, Daniel Amokachi, Victor Ikpeba, Garba Lawal and Patrick Paschal as ambassadors of the league.

Former House of Representatives member, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, yesterday, told a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere, that she is not indebted to any bank.