Two players from the United Arab Emirate have fallen to the magnetic resonance imaging test carried out on virtually all players in the on-going FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the country.

Golden Eaglets coach, John Obuh, has said that he is battling to ensure that his players overcome the nightmarish start against Germany, when they confront Honduras in today’s match.

Chairman of the Marketing Committee for the on-going FIFA Under 17 World Cup, Mike Itemuagbor, said yesterday that the trophy tour his committee organised was not funded by the government.

The poor organisationthat has trailed the preparation of the Fifa Under-17 World Cup came to a head yesterday when the United States of America’s team based in the Kano rejected their bus driver when he nearly had a fatal accident while on duty with the team on board.

Perhaps reacting to the outcry of outright abandonment of the Golden Eaglets in the on-going Fifa Under-17 World Cup, the FCT Minister of State, Chuka Odom, last night made available 40,000 tickets to fans to watch the Eaglets against Honduras today at the Abuja National Stadium.

DESPITE being a new development compared to the likes of Bonga and Agbami fields, the Akpo field has been rated as a highly prospective field with the capacity to produce well over a million barrels of oil per day.

For weeks now, workers in the presidential lounge and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) fire department have performed their jobs with fears of epidemic outbreak, following the effluence discharged from the new domestic terminal of the airport, otherwise known as MMA2.

ACADEMIC and administrative activities in the three Delta State polytechnics in Oghara, Ogwash-Uku, and Ozoro and the State College of Physical Education, Mosogar have been grounded, as their unions yesterday embarked on an indefinite strike over members’ welfare.

THE Coalition of Residence and Business Association of Nigeria,(CRBAN) has urged all Nigerians to put a stop to the payment of electricity bills as it is a fraudulent act on the part of the nations utility company Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to send out bills for services not rendered.

Travel & Business News magazine has introduced an national travel essay competition (NTEC 2009) for secondary school students across the country.

Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Engr. Sam Oduselu, has canvassed partnership and co-operatives among stakeholders in the aviation sector to raise safety level in air transportation in the country.

Global aviation industry has agreed to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by the year 2050 to save the environment from global warming.

Airline employees who report to work ill are more likely than sick passengers to spread infections such as the H1N1 swine flu virus aboard planes, with low-paid workers posing the greatest danger, a US government expert has said.

Emirates airline has picked up three prestigious accolades at the London and Hong Kong editions of the distinguished Business Traveller Awards, 2009.

Shareholders of public companies in the Nigerian capital market has been blamed for the failure of certain companies to abide by strict corporate governance principle.