Once again, we are reminded of the need to put in place, good residency laws. This time around, the reminder comes from a foreign land. Paul Le Guen is a French national and a world-renowned football coach. He parades very tall credentials in this respect.

ABEOKUTA—The Remo Traditional Council yesterday, formally informed the Ogun state government about the demise of the Akarigbo and Paramount Ruler of Remoland, Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo, who was also the chairman of the state Council of Obas.

Osogbo—The 50th late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse 11, has been described as a traditional ruler whose political ideology because of his love for his community and his people was completely misunderstood in many quarters.

AS the zero hour approaches swiftly for the 2016 Summer Olympics which begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 -21 and the Paralympic Games scheduled for September 7 -18, the Nigeria Olympic Committee Medical and Scientific Commission has issued guidelines to athletes and officials to prevent the spread of Zika virus pre and post Rio 2016.
Chairman of NOC Medical and Scientific Commission, Dr Akin Amao said that following the guidelines issued by WHO to prevent the spread of Zika virus in the context of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has become important for every Nigerian going to Brazil to embrace the guidelines to’’help you stay safe and healthy’’.
According to the guidelines, pregnant women are advised not to travel to Brazil.
At the games, travellers should prevent mosquito bites by using insect repellent and protective clothing. Practice safe sex, including the consistent and correct use of condoms, or abstain from sex during their stay in Brazil.
After the Games, women who discover they are pregnant during their travel or shortly after returning from Brazil should contact their healthcare providers for counselling about Zika virus risks and pregnancy management.
After the Games, all travellers should practice safer sex, including the correct and consistent use of condoms, or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks after their return.
Men who experience symptoms of Zika virus disease during or after their return, should adopt safer sex practices or abstain from sex for at least six months.
Pregnant women whose sexual partners travelled to Brazil should observe safer sex practices or abstain from sex for the duration of their pregnancy. Couples or women planning a pregnancy should wait at least 8 weeks after return from Brazil before trying to conceive; and 6 months if the male partner was symptomatic.
All travellers should use personal protective measures such as insect repellent for at least three weeks after returning from the Games to avoid being bitten and potentially spreading the infection to other people through mosquito bites.
Travellers should not donate blood for at least four weeks after departure from Brazil to reduce the potential risk of onwards transmission.

Ahead of the October governorship elections in Ondo State, Senator Robert Ajayi Boroffice, who represents Ondo North Senatorial District defeated other governorship aspirants from Akoko North at a screening conducted by Akoko Elders Forum.

ABUJA—Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has appealed to the Federal Government not to use force against the Niger Delta militants in a bid to quell the attacks on oil and gas installations in the region.

When we were growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were many items on radio and television and around us that helped us to grow into what we have become today. The television itself was archaic.

All is set ahead of the July 30 and 31 epoch making election of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in which new national officers will emerge to run the body’s affairs for the next two years. It is a novel electoral system as lawyers who paid their practising fee and branch branch due as at March 31, 2016, will be eligible to vote for candidates of their choice electronically, unlike the old delegate system.

ASABA—Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, lamented that the state was the worst hit by the present activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, and other militant groups in the Niger Delta region.

Football development in Nigeria got a big boost during the week when the World Governing body, FIFA disclosed its readiness to partner with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to actualize the football made in Anambra state initiative of the Anambra State Football Association.

Miss FadilahSaliu-Ahmed of Zamani College, Kaduna has been announced as the winner of the 13th Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition for Secondary School Students. She scored 75% in the first round of the competition and maintained the same grade to lead in the second round, according to the Chief Examiner, Prof.T. A. Ezeigbo.

The Lagos State Government has refuted the claim being circulated in some print and online media that 10 teachers in the Post Primary Teaching Service Commission die monthly.

Wasiu Adeleke, driver of the container-laden truck which fell off the Ojuelegba Flyover in Lagos and killed three people on September 2, 2015, is to be tried for manslaughter, a court ruled yesterday.

In his lifetime, Rev. Father Nicholas ChukwuemekaTagbo meant different things to people that passed through his tutelage either as a teacher, administrator, educationist or priest.

YENAGOA—Bayelsa State Government has denied rumours that it got N19 billion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC for the month of July.