Minister for Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung, created panic among football buffs in Nigeria when the Rio Olympic-bound U-23 soccer team on a training tour in Atlanta, USA, could not be airlifted to Rio until a few hours to their opening game against Japan. Team handler, Coach Samson Siasia, drew the Minister’s ire when he cried out over the cash-strapped team’s ordeal in camp.

Following the recent flood alert issued by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET, the Bayelsa State Government has stepped up the clearing of major drainages and canals in Yenagoa and its environs as well as dismantling of illegal structures along the canal right of way.

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has faulted moves by the National Assembly to regulate activities of civil society organisations, CSOs, in the country, saying the role of CSOs is not to fight government but to proffer solutions to problems.

A civil society organisation, Egalitarian Mission Africa, has petitioned anti-graft agencies, accusing the government of Kogi State of money laundering and misappropriation of over N11 billion state funds.

Enugu State government has taken another giant stride to ensure quality and affordable education through the provision of one free meal daily for its pupils in primary one to three.

THE wife of Abia State Governor, Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu has tasked women in the state to use the annual August Women Conference to deliberate on ways of eliminating obnoxious and harmful practices against women.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC,Monday, arrested and detained former Eboyi State Commissioner for Public Utilities, Mr. Benjamin Ogbonnaya Okah, for collecting N83 million bribe from an American firm.

Imo State Government has challenged the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to publish the alleged labour sins of Rochas Okorocha or risk being seen or labelled as blackmailers.

OIL bearing communities in Delta State have warned Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the state House of Assembly against alleged plans to cripple the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC and divert its fund.

Despite the many land mines, the Peoples Democratic Party has forged ahead and will be electing new officers to run the affairs of the party in the next three years.