TECHNICAL com-mittee chairman of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Chris Green has given a part on the back to Edo FA for putting together the South South champion of champions soccer tourney which is on-going at the Sam Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin.

OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, stormed the Abuja home of a former Jigawa State governor, Saminu Turaki.
Neighbours of the former senator said they spotted the team of EFCC operatives at the 16 Dennis Osadebe Street, Aso Villa home of the former governor at about 7pm, Wednesday, but it was not clear what their mission was or whether the former governor was arrested by the operatives.

GIWA FC have been expelled from the Nigeria Football Professional League(NPFL) after they stayed away from a third game yesterday in Ilorin.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation in association with the University of Pretoria has announced that co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr Bill Gates, will deliver the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 17th of July 2016, the eve of Mandela Day.

Two female passengers of a commercial bus in Aba, Abia State, are battling for survival at an undisclosed hospital in the city after their bus collided with a truck

The waiting game on Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia’s Edo Mass Movement, EMM seems to be reaching a climax. The EMM had earlier expressed its determination to produce an aspirant to win the governorship ticket of any of the major political parties.

The probe of former Military Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, (retd) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of collecting and disbursing the state’s share of N450 million for campaigns ahead of last year’s Presidential election, has taken a criminal dimension.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has restated the determination of his government to stem the tide of violence, criminality and brigandage by persons within and outside the state, saying their days are numbered.

BUSINESS and other activities in Lagos, the nation’s economic nerve centre, and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, yesterday, went unhindered as residents shunned the strike declared by a faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Ayuba Wabba, to protest the N145 hike in pump price of petrol.

The need for Nigeria youths to rise to the occasion of leadership and shun social vices formed the one day summit on campus security themed, “ Cultism and drug abuse among Nigerian Youth:A Threat to National Peace and National Security;organised by the National Union of Lagos State Student NULASS.

The flight to Maiduguri, last week Tuesday evening, had been delayed for more than three hours. And at a point, not a few passengers had become apprehensive that it might be cancelled. Eventually though, we took off and one hour and ten minutes or so later, we landed.

The activities of the new Boko Haram – the wave of barbarous hordes in the form of herdsmen – have reached a crescendo and all people of goodwill must feel perturbed by the ugly development.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s alleged plans to enthrone a reliable successor could well be threatened by the overflow of developments in the Edo State House of Assembly. Esan political leaders in the governor’s APC, according to sources, are peeved by the governor’s failure to restore the former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Victor Edoror to office, a development that saw the speakership being moved from their zone to Edo South Senatorial zone.

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF yesterday said it was carrying out ‘air reconnaissance missions’ around the Niger Delta region, where militants recently blew up an offshore oil facility belonging to Chevron Nigeria, with a view to having a good picture of activities going on in the region.

NUTRTIOUS beverages using native fruits, herbsAccording to the researchers – Dennis Balogu, Cornelius Orishagbemi, Theophilus Ikegwu and Babatunde Jubril- “considering the fact that Niger State is an Agricultural producing state with over 78 per cent of its employed residents in Agriculture, IBB University, Lapai lays emphasis on research that will improve the standard of living and well-being of farmers which will enhance the national food security of Nigeria.