ENUGU—Resident doctors at the Enugu National Orthopaedic Hospital, NOHE, have embarked on indefinite strike over alleged industrial dispute with the management.

PORT HARCOURT—Two Mobile Policemen, were, yesterday, killed during a gun battle with hoodlums at Ikiri area of Omoku Town in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.

A Federation of the existing Region, Lagos continuing as Federal Territory or becoming a Region. N.B. The Memorandum considered a redrawing of the constituent units desirable and set out the following criteria: ethnic, linguistic, and cultural affinity or homogeneity, historical association (e.g. Hausa/Fulani, Efik/Ibibio), viability of states both absolutely and relatively, geographical contiguity, comparability in size, reciprocal self-determination (i.e. not only should each minority group be given the opportunity to determine its future but also a majority group must be given the opportunity to determine whether it is willing to associate with a minority seeking such association.

Everybody in Nigeria now says diversification is the solution to our economy. They add that agriculture holds the vital key to it. Few ask or offer any suggestion about how to achieve the goal and when we can expect results.

A NIGERIAN journalist, Ahmad Salkida, yesterday, accused the federal government of rendering him homeless, saying he felt “duped” into speaking well of the government after he was declared wanted by the Army. “I was made to say all was well,” Mr. Salkida said on Twitter moments  ago. “I thought they were going to undo what they […]

Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has made good his three million Naira-a-win promise to Rangers, who have vowed to consolidate their leadership of the Nigeria league with a win at Ikorodu United this weekend.

Reigning champions Madagascar have become the final team to qualify for the second edition of the CAF Beach Soccer Cup of Nations that Nigeria will host from December 13-18, 2016.

Chairman of the Main Organi-sing Committee of the 7th Chief of Naval Staff Swimming Championship, Commodore Suraji Mustapha Bello and the President of the Nigerian Aquatic Federation, Fatai Williams on Friday inspected the swimming pool at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere ahead of the 2016 CNS swimming championship.

LAGOS—A 28-year-old man, who runs a one-man robbery squad, has been arrested in Lagos, and a stolen vehicle recovered from him.

TWO! I had carefully read the farcical online report that Governor Obiano had, in two years, blown the fabulous N75 billion “abandoned” in Anambra’s vaults by his predecessor. It was a disgraceful washout; it contained not a single word, let alone a single sentence, to support the wild claim of its title. It merely listed what the author termed 29 Anambra State Government accounts in various banks, and posted the sum of N37.3 billion as the total funds in them on the morning of Chief Obiano’s inauguration.

John Obi Mikel has admitted that he is ready to talk to clubs in January if Chelsea fail to offer him a new deal.

ASABA-DELTA State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr David Ofoeyeno is dead. He died at the age of 55 after a protracted illness in Warri.

WARRI – THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State has inaugurated a seven-man disciplinary committee to probe 47 high ranking members of the party in a bid to sanction those behind the current crisis rocking the party in the state.

PORT HARCOURT- ABOUT 500 participants, including governors of the Niger Delta states, federal appointees, ex-agitators, leaders of ethnic nationalities and traditional rulers are among stakeholders the Federal Government invitees to chart a new template for the region at a two-day summit on the region, being organised by the Office of the Vice President.

YAYA Toure’s agent Dimitri Seluk has again slammed Pep Guardiola by claiming ‘he wins a couple of games and thinks he’s king’.