In a bid to improve the skills of Commanding Officers on counter terrorism and insurgency operations, the Nigeria Army is organizing a workshop for its men.

THE National Vice Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-East zone, Mr. Austin Umahi, yesterday, expressed the determination of the party to recapture Imo and Anambra states in 2019.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned a former community leader of Uruoji Nri in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Emma Emelife, on a 13-count charge for allegedly embezzling N64 million belonging to his community.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Publisher of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Sam Amuka, and many others, have commended the Editorial Board Chairman of The Nation, Mr. Sam Omatseye, for his writings, especially on his new book, A Chronicle Foretold, a collection of his writings during the tenure of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

WE live in a highly insecure world. However, the greatest source of global insecurity is not ISIS, Trumpism or the nuclear arms race; it is hunger, powered by the perhaps, the most devastating but virtually unreported drought in living memory. As this reality dawned on me, I thought about children going to bed hungry; how do they sleep? Adolescents going to school on empty stomachs; what can they learn? What do you tell a hungry populace; how can they listen?

The Ijaws of Delta State, yesterday, inaugurated the executive of Meinbutus Federated Communities Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri to work with the Federal and State governments to promote peace, unity and eliminate any form of oppression and marginalization.

A 20- year-old boy attempted committing suicide, Wednesday, at Ughelli, Delta State, after his girlfriend allegedly rejected his love advances.
The boy, Jerry Bernard, was said to have drunk a substance used for laundry in combination with a popular insecticide after the sudden rejection by his girlfriend.

Four students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, who came tops at the National Mathematical Centre’s 8th National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS 2016) in Nigeria, will represent the country at the international Mathematics competition organised by the University College, London, holding in America University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

WITH barely three months to the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr. Solomon Dalung has cried out over the inability of the country’s contingent to embark on overseas training.

THE five pipeline surveillance workers arrested by Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, last Friday, in connection with the bombing of a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, pipeline at Makaraba community, Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have been released.