WARRI—The  Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, has called on Federal Government  to respect the decision of the Supreme Court and other courts of competent jurisdiction concerning the ownership of the land where the  Maritime University is been sited, while commending the government for releasing N2 billion for the take off of the university.

Defending Afrobasket champions, the D’Tigers of Nigeria yesterday in Tunis hit a century, 106- against Cameroon’s 91 to pick the second semi-final ticket of the 2017 Afrobasket holding in Tunisia.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the Senate President Dr Bukola Sakari to “urgently explain to Nigerians if it is true that a Nigerian Senator gets N29 million in monthly pay, and over N3 billion a year.”

In achieving a hitch free hajj, as well as reducing the risk of ill health, provision of good food and accommodation is key. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON and the Pilgrims Welfare Board from various states have taken this issue with all serious attention.

MAKURDI—Four persons, including Major Lawrence Ugbo (retd.), a former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, state chairmen were, Wednesday, reportedly killed in a conflict between supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC, and PDP, at Ondo community, in Ogobia, Ugboju District of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue state.

HUMANITY yesterday, September 14, 2017 reached a milestone; the 150th year, Das Kapital by German Thinker, Karl Marx, was published. Understandably, it was not marked worldwide. Yet, the ideas  propounded in the book, changed and shaped the 20th Century; from the Great Revolutions of Russia in 1917 through that of the 1949 Chinese Revolution to the unforgettable Cuban Revolution a decade later.

The Elders group, Majlis Ansarullah has called on government and Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) to find lasting solution to strikes in the educational sector of the economy and save the sector from collapse.

THE cold war between 2015 All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and his Labour Party, LP counterpart in the state, Chief Great Ovadje Ogboru, deepened, weekend with Emerhor throwing jabs at Ogboru in response to similar shots at him during the inauguration of a pressure group convened by Ogboru at Abraka.

Nigeria’s home-based Super Eagles and their Malian counterparts battled to a goalless draw in their opening Group A match of the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium yesterday.

Yaya Toure’s agent, Dmitri Seluk has chided Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola for leaving the midfielder out of Wednesday night’s Champions League victory at Feyenoord.