BRAZIL have won the FIFA World Cup a record five times and the Under-20 World Cup four times, only second to Argentina who are six time winners. Nigeria tie with Brazil for the U-17 diadem, having won it three times.
But when the final of the 13th edition holds in Abuja on Sunday, Nigeria will be attempting to surpass Brazil in this category of youth competition.

THE Federal Government, on the second day of its meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, admitted that its planned deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry will lead to an increase in the pump price of petrol.

ABUJA — NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor has told those not satisfied with the choice of Professor Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s candidate for next year’s gubernatorial election in Anambra State to either toe the party line or quit.

EFFORTS of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George, and five others, to secure bail from an Ikeja High court that jailed them over the NPA contracts scam, hit the rocks yesterday as the same court refused their request.

* To spend 64th birthday in prison

Efforts of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA) Chief Olabode George and five others to secure a temporary relief from the judgement of an Ikeja High court that jailed them over the NPA scam hit the rock today as the same court refused their request for bail pending appeal.

Governor of the Central Bank, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has vowed that there will be no respite for banks on corporate governance, insisting that this will help rid the industry of criminals.

*No clear mandate for them from militants
By Emma Amaize
MINISTER of Defence and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty, Major –General Godwin Abbe (rtd.), shed light, yesterday, on why the committee is not keen on meeting with the Aaron Team, a group of eminent Nigerians with mandate from the Movement for the Emancipation of the [...]

THIS is the full inside story of how leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State met in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, last week to deliberate on the way forward after what is being described as a state chapter ruptured by incessant crises.

The Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Alhaji Aliyu Jibril Yelwa has raised alarm at the spate of the foreign and local debts being incurred by the three tiers of government in Nigeria.

The governorship election of April 14 2007 where Andy Uba, the candidate of the ruling PDP was announced the governor was declared illegal on June 14, 2007 by the Supreme Court of Nigeria which replaced him with his predecessor Peter Obi—citing an illegality in Andy Uba’s election on April 14, 2007