“2009 Abuja Carnival will return as the people’s event”
Hopefully, the 2009 Abuja Carnival will witness a re-birth going by the number of reform changes, which the newly inaugurated committee led by notable theatre artist, dance scholar and choreographer, Ojo Rasaki Bakare revealed to art and tourism journalists over the week end in Lagos.
‘F/Eagles won’t lack support’
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles will not be lacking in support when they begin their campaign to win the FIFA World Youth Championship in Egypt this week. Oche Peters, a former Udoji United coach who runs the Supreme International Sports Academy in Cairo, says their performance at the 5 Nation tournament earlier this year when they finished […]
ASUU, students protest, seek public support
Niger Delta University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and students yesterday staged a peaceful rally in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with an appeal to well meaning Nigerians to pressurize the Federal Government to sign and implement the re-negotiated agreement with the union to save the nation’s university system from total collapse.
Momoh Channels efforts to tackle sports decline
Like every Nigerian, John Momoh (OON), Chairman/CEO of Channels Television, is worried about the steady decline of sports in the country and he, with his team at the Lagos-based televison station, are set to stem the slide. The decline, he said, apart from administrative failures, stems from the neglect of grass-root sports development from where […]
Onovo fails polygraph test
A POLYGRAPH machine is often called a “lie-detectorâ€. In most countries with advanced legal traditions, you cannot obtain conviction against an accused person based on a failed polygraph test.
Lawmaker makes case for Varsity of Petroleum, Effurun
FOR the University of Petroleum, Effurun, Delta State, to rise to contemporary challenges in the educational sector, the Federal Government has been urged to effectively fund the institution.
