“P innick disclosed that the tenure of the Boards of the Leagues, under which umbrella Kawu became Member of the NFF Executive Committee, has expired.

Prince Abubakar Audu stood on the verge of history. He had been twice governor of Kogi State, and the electoral results showed that he would be elected a third time.

Until the last decade of the 20th century, a common myth among the students population of Government College, Umuahia was that the people of Abam were human head hunters or killers, kidnappers and even cannibals who relished serving as mercenaries or hired warriors. This derogatory image of Abam remained what it was, a myth, yet it was widely accepted among the student population as truth. The result was that many of the few students from Abam who were lucky to attend that elite school, simply hid their identities behind neighbouring communities such as Ohafia, Abiriba and even Arochukwu.

I started writing from my undergraduate days in the university, precisely in the third year when there was a course called Noon theatre, and in the course, you are expected to produce a play with your group, so I toyed with the idea of producing another person’s play and on second thought, I said no, let me use my class project because we write plays as part of play writing courses. I used that my 3rd year play which I called an Only Son then and I was surprised at the way it was well received by both my fellow students and even the lecturers.

LAGOS — The Lagos State Government has assured victims of the Owode-Onirin scrap market, along Mile-12, Ikorodu Road, cylinder explosion receiving treatment at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja of adequate medical attention and would not abandon them.

OSOGBO—As the present administration in Osun State enters its 6th year in office, the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the economic hardship in the state has come to an end.

FirstPost Media Enterprise, publishers of FirstPost News magazine has said it will be holding its 2015 award with the theme, “Sustainable Development,” on December 19, 2015, in Lagos.

A Lagos High Court has granted a garnishee order nisi attaching any money in the accounts of the guarantors of Holyview Investment International Limited in about 17 commercial banks in the country, for allegedly refusing to pay a judgment debt estimated at N117 million.

Workers in the agricultural sector, on the platform of Nigerian Council of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurants, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Association, IUF, have threatened industrial unrest if efforts at making the Federal Government extend the benefits of hazard allowance to them failed.

The Nigeria Professional Football League, (NPFL) will tomorrow in Paris, France join other world football leagues at the World Leagues Forum to discuss the future of the league in the scheme of the emerging FIFA structure.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and wife, Patience, along with delegations of chiefs of Ogbia Kingdom, Bayelsa State, have visited the group president of Azikel Group, Dr Eruani Azibapu, to condole with him and his family on the death of his father, the late Chief Allwell Eruani, Aguda the IX, the Obanema of Emadike.

Rivers State Government has reassured National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving in the state of its commitment to their security and welfare.

Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, weekend, Abuja, appealed to corporate bodies not to reject corps members posted to them for the one year mandatory service.

WARRI—TWO suspected pickpockets were weekend apprehended before getting away with an iPhone and an unspecified sum of money stolen from the pocket of a traditional ruler at a funeral service in Effurun, Delta State.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, was last night tethering towards a major crisis over the strong positions of major stakeholders on resolving the problems arising from the death of its candidate in the Kogi State governorship election, Prince Abubakar Audu.