Former Green Eagles player, Nicholas Ukadike, has predicted victory for Nigeria’s Super Eagles in Sunday’s win or break 2010 World Cup qualifier against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia at the National Stadium Abuja. Ukadike, who played for Spartans of Owerri and later Iwuanyanwu Nationale in his days, however, warned the Super Eagles to be wary of the Tunisians as they would deploy all antics in their kitty to frustrate them. He said the frustration Nigeria suffered in the hands of Angola on the road to Germany 2006 would not repeat itself this time around, advising that the Super Eagles should do away with anxiety and utilise their chances as they come.

It was mixed fortunes for a number of companies on the Nigerian capital market which presented their financial statements to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), last week, as Deap Capital Management and Trust Company Plc recorded significant decline in its bottom lines while NEM Insurance Plc recorded significant improvement in its key financial indices among others.

With confidence ris ing of a recovery from recession, Wall Street faces historically its worst month of the year with memories still fresh from last September’s financial market debacle.

Demand for foreign exchange under the Retail Dutch Auction System (RDAS) fell by 14.5 per cent to $9.5 billion in the second quarter of the year.

Former Secretary general of the Nigeria Football Association, Sani Toro, expects the Super Eagles to have a walk over Tunisia, when both sides clash in Sunday’s 2010 World Cup qualifier at the Abuja National Stadium.

Oceanic Bank International Plc said it has recovered over N9 billion within the last two weeks.

World Football governing body, FIFA, Monday, officially confirmed DAAR Communications’ appointment as Local TV producer for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.

Federal government said at the weekend that it has concluded arrangements to take punitive measures against its contractor, Autobahn Techniques for its failure to supply the entire 5000 motorized tricycles also known as Keke NAPEP.

Nigeria ’s U-20 men’s team, Flying Eagles, arrived in Mallorca in the early hours of Monday to begin final preparations for this year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup finals taking place in Egypt.

An environmentalist, Prof. Oladele Osibanjo, has advocated compulsory inspection of imported used electrical and electronic equipment at the nation’s ports before they are sold to buyers.