Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr  is hopeful that Argentina win their group D games against Iceland and Croatia so that they wouldn’t play under pressure when the Lionel Messi-inspired side meet the Eagles on June 26.

Abuja—President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has dismissed report claiming that Labour leaders, including him attended a political meeting and endorsed “Grand National Coalition, GNC, of the National Intervention Movement.”

UGHELLI—SECRETARY of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Alfred Mulade, has lashed out at the immediate past President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Udengs Eradiri, over his comment against the forum, describing Udengs as “ignorant and arrogant” of the group’s objectives.

MANY candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, are crying foul, demanding reasons why their earlier released results were removed from the website of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. They are asking JAMB to explain why it displayed “You do not have any result yet” or “you did not write the examination,” after such results were earlier published and removed from their website..

AFRICAN youths have been told to create solutions to the leadership problems confronting African countries to improve governance, raise accountability, efficiency and enhance citizen-government collaboration throughout Africa.

KATSINA—Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Katsina State have arrested a 19-year-old girl, Zakiya Abdukarim, with illicit drugs stocked in her brassiere and other parts of her body.

Governor, Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele yesterday charged newly appointed Deputy Governors and Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members to leverage on the wealth of experience in the discharge of their new responsibilities.

ANAMBRA State House of Assembly has passed a resolution, urging the state Commissioner of Police and the Inspector- General of Police to fish out the kidnappers of an expatriate worker of A construction firm handling the newly awarded Otuocha/ Ibaji federal road.

Blood Bath: 1,351 killed in 10 weeks

lagos—Men of Lagos State Police Command yesterday laid siege to the premises of the state chapter of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, to arrest the chairman, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana, over plans by the group to embark on protests against the state government’s Land Use Charge, LUC.