The Board of Kano Pillars Football club has promised to be focused on the league despite the club’s loss in this year CAF Champions League to Heartland Football Club in the semi final.

Former Ocean Boys captain, Blessing Okardi has promised to score more goals for his new club, Lobi Stars of Makurdi in the Nigeria Premier League this season after the club’s victory against Rangers of Enugu. Okardi said that his best would be seen at Lobi, stressing that he is looking forward to winning a continental ticket with his new club.

The deal with Ondo State government is mouth watery but herculean, so says former Jasper United manager Mike Idoko who teamed up with Sunshine Stars FC this season with the task of not just ensuring a league trophy for the Akure based side but also to assist the state develop football from the grassroots.

The last may not have been heard about the activities of kidnappers who seemed to have rendered men of the Nigerian Police Force impotent with the ease they snapped up citizens off the street in the name of kidnaping and demanding for money ransom.

They started out as five members, now there are three of them in the group. Prince, Sir-K, Kendo, ADV and Double D once comprised the pop group known as Freewindz.

Umuahia—Mr Gilbert Igbokwe, the Sector Commander of the FRSC in Abia State , says a mobile court has been established to try traffic offenders during and after the “ember months’’. Igbokwe told newsmen in Umuahia,  yesterday that the Commission requested for the court because it wanted accident-free ember months. He said the trial of traffic […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) will soon start to conduct their examinations online. Chairman, Senate Committee on Communication, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu who gave this hint in Kaduna, yesterday, said that the era of students going to pay teachers to be awarded marks in […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has stressed the importance of the news media to the success of Federal Govern-ment’s 7-Point Agenda and the Millennium Develop-ment Goals, describing them as crucial partners towards achieving the objectives. Director, Public Relations and Publicity of the fund, Mr. Joseph Ari, stated this at a […]

Our country is being wantonly pillaged to a state of nothingness by those who manipulated themselves to political and other offices that confer on them the undeserved privilege of controlling the national till.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said the quest for infrastructural development that have eluded the people of the state could not be realised without government’s sincere approach and involvement of the private sector.

By Awa Kalu The Agbakoba case, supra, found its way to the Supreme Court [See Director, SSS v. Agbakoba (1999) 3 NWLR (Pt. 595) 314]. At the Supreme Court, Onu JSC, in a concurring opinion stated as follows: “In the United Kingdom, for instance, the Court of Appeal observed that ‘the grant or refusal of […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Federal Government currently needs N420 billion to adequately fund the Nigerian Police Force, given the rising level and sophistication of criminal activities in the country. Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Chief Parry Osayande, made this revelation, while fielding questions from journalists in Owerri, Imo State capital. The PSC Chairman […]

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—A Federal High Court in Lagos,  yesterday overruled the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and its governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi’s  applications on the suit by House of Representatives member, Mr.  Femi Gbajabiamila. They had urged the court to first hear and determine the preliminary objection they brought challenging Gbajabiamila who wants the […]

By Emmanuel Aziken & Inalegwu Shaibu Abuja—The Senate yesterday praised President Umaru Yar’Adua for his peace initiatives in the Niger Delta region but rejected attempts to nominate him for a Nobel Peace prize for the effort. The Senate’s resolution followed a motion moved by 56 senators who commended the President’s initiatives in restoring peace to […]

By Kenneth Ehigiator LAGOS—The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has threatened to ground the operations of foreign airlines owing it. Its chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, however, said in Lagos that it would be lenient with domestic airlines owing it. Baraje regretted that foreign airlines were owing NAMA debts running into millions of naira from navigational […]