SPOTLIGHT MEDIA

Former Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh will no longer appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Sports until after the two African Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Egypt in Kaduna and Alexandria later this month. The two games against the North Africans are billed for Kaduna on Friday, March 25 with the return game holding four days later in Alexandria.

The Federal Government is in the process of establishing a science and technology development bank, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said. Onu said this when he received the National Association of Motor Mechanics and Technicians led by its President, Mr. Suleiman Oseni, who paid him a courtesy call in Abuja on Monday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condemned the recent political violence in Rivers, saying the killing of people over political differences was primitive, barbaric and unacceptable. A statement issued in Abuja by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, noted that the President made this known at an interactive session with Nigerians living in Equatorial Guinea.