The Warri Progressive Forum, WPF, has urged the member representing Warri South, I, Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Mrs Omawumi Udoh to key into the SMART Agenda of the Delta State government so as to better the lives her constituents.

Operators in the Nigerian capital market have moved for Federal Government intervention fund to save the market from the current volatility and grow the economy.

The Plateau State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has decried the influx of amateurs into the teaching profession which it says is contributing to the low standard of education in the state.

THESE are not the best of times for the administration of Abdulfatah Ahmed in Kwara State as a result of its failure to be up to date with the payment of salaries.

THE Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, yesterday said the $470 million contract awarded by the late President Musa Yar’Adua’s administration for the procurement and installation of Close Circuit Television, CCTV, in Lagos and Abuja did not follow due process.

Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung said yesterday that the University of Port Harcourt High Performance Centre is key to the development of modern sports in Nigeria.

Super Eagles head coach, Sunday Oliseh, has revealed his fear about Nigeria’s chances of having their strongest squad for the coming qualifiers.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letters to the leadership of the National Assembly, accusing the lawmakers of greed, graft and insensitivity to the declining state of the country’s economy, as misdirected, saying they would not be distracted from performing their constitutional duties.

Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, said it would open liaison offices in the South East and Niger Delta areas which it described as territories of Biafra.

Former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, has expressed shock at a statement, credited to the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, that about 6.9 million British Pounds Sterling was being expected as Ibori loot.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed February 4 to hear a fresh suit lodged against the Federal Government by the convicted kingpin of the Boko Haram sect, Kabiru Umar. a.k.a. Kabiru Sokoto.

ETHIOPIA is primarily in the news this week, but not because it is hosting the on-going African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit. Rather, it is about two worrying developments. The advancing drought for which needed international funds are in short supply and an estimated 350,000 newborns are expected in drought-affected communities between March and August, 2016.

ONGOING brawl over deployment of top executives at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, may have taken a new dimension with the intervention of the National Assembly.

Oporoza community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, has said that Chief Emami Ayiri’s alleged instigation of the Joint Task Force, JTF, against the Ijaw and insinuations that Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, was the mastermind of the recent oil pipelines vandalism in the area, could trigger another Itsekiri versus Ijaw crisis.

Eight months ago, after winning the governorship elections in Plateau state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Simon Lalong began the journey of governance by constituting different committees to look into the various activities of his predecessor, Jonah Jang, now senator representing Plateau North in the Senate.