Chairman of Delta State Advisory and Peace Building Council, Prof. Sam Oyovbaire, has sued for strategic alliances among Host Communities in Oil Producing Areas and security agencies in securing oil and gas investments in the state.

Nigeria’s number one shot putter, Stephen Mozia is muscling his way to world recognition as he heaved 21.03m to set a new national record and also set the pace for the 2016 season. Mozia, a student of Cornell University in New York, USA raked in the performance at the Commodore invitational held in Nashville Tennessee at the weekend.

Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr. Solomon Dalung has charged the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC to source for additional funds to complement what the government provide as Team Nigeria prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil. The minister who spoke in Abuja when he granted audience to members of the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) at the weekend however, promised to ensure that the nation’s contingent to the Rio Games were adequately funded.

Today, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will take to the field in their opening match of the Championship of African Nations Tournament.(CHAN) When in 2008, the President Issa Hayatou led Confederation of African Football decided to institute a competition for players who ply their trade in their country, in the African continent, many were skeptical about its relevance, appeal and possible success.

The PPPRA Executive Secretary, Farouk Ahmed reportedly announced, at a press briefing on December 29th 2015 in Abuja, that a revised template for fuel pricing had been approved by the Agency; the announcement was evidently the formal manifestation of the ‘modulated pricing’ model earlier canvassed by Ibe Kachikwu, the NNPC CEO and current Minister of State for Petroleum. Thus, with the application of the new template, petrol price will be reduced from N87 to N86 in NNPC filling stations, while other marketers would sell at a pump price of N86.50/litre.

The Sokoto State Government says it has uncovered N1.5 billion belonging to it lying idle in 100 dormant accounts in various commercial banks in the country.

IN its efforts to address the worsening trend of gas flaring in the country, the Senate Committee on Gas Resources will meet with top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its subsidiaries, International Oil Companies, IOCs as well as other oil majors tomorrow.

EBONYI State Government, weekend, said it had concluded arrangement to engage the services of 39,000 farmers to boost rice production across the 13 local government areas of the state.

The Mamaging Director of Megam-ound Invest-ment Limited, Otunba Olum-ide Osunsina has expressed the commit-ment of the company to sponsor many sporting events so as to develop the sports in the country. Osunsina made this assertion while speaking at the final of Mega-mound Tennis Championship 2016 held at Ikoyi club 1938 in Lagos recently.

Professor Alexia Thomas, Chairman, The Commonwealth Liberation Party, TCLP, UK has flayed the policies of the British Government, saying it is wicked and destructive.