The FIFA U-17 World Cup which begins this weekend in eight Nigeria cities is the 13th edition of the cadet championship which the world’s football governing body test-ran with the first edition tagged FIFA Kodak U-16 Tournament in China in 1985.

Football administrator and former chairman of Premier League side, Kano Pillars, Alhaji Sani Usman has said the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF is to blame for the Eagle’s poor runs in the final stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

The Ikoyi Club 1938 has unveiled plans to make the 71st Anniversary of the Lagos elite club memorable.
According to the Chairman, Organising Committee, Folorunso Omosa, at a press conference heralding a two-week long programme of events, it would be kicked off with sectional tournaments to hold from October 14-28, 2009.

NNS Ofiom emerged winners of the First Nigerian Navy Ship 2009 WEY C.O’s Cup after defeating the NNS AMBE 4-2. The competition came to an end last Sunday at the Road 3 Football field Navy Town, Lagos, after weeks of exciting football action.

Ex- International Benedict Iroha has added his voice to the already vociferous atmosphere on whether the Eagles deserve to be in the forthcoming World Cup in South Africa.

Heartland’s Stanley Okoro is top of the 21-man squad picked by head coach John Obuh for this month’s Fifa Under-17 World Cup starting October 24.

Tension is building up afresh in the Niger Delta after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) declared on Friday that it was ending its 90-day cease fire. It told oil companies and the military to brace up for renewed attacks. The following reports examine the events surrounding the latest development.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua on Thursday, June 26, 2009 proclaimed the unconditional amnesty to all Niger Delta militants in the creeks and those facing prosecution in the law courts.

With professorial confidence, Isa Aremu, vice president, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, fielded questions from Sunday Vanguard at his Textile Labour House office on ACME road, Lagos. It was the day we have come to describe as black Wednesday in Lagos when a seven-hour downpour sacked the State – the rains rendered virtually all roads in Lagos impassable.

Almost five decades after independence, Nigeria, a country richly endowed with rich human and natural resources has consistently failed to take its pride of place in the global economy. According to the 2008 human capital index, the country is ranked 154 out of 177 countries.

Samuel Ogrih is the managing director of Mega Trend Investment Company, owners of The Plantation Estate, Warri. In this interview, he says lack of decent accommodation in the ancient city made him to give the city a befitting accommodation

FINANCIAL advisers appointed for the four troubled banks in the second phase of the banking reform have issued a public communication guideline for the management and staff of the affected banks urging them to continue to insist that the banks are healthy and in sound financial condition.

VICE president, Sub Saharan Africa and South Africa of AstraZeneca, Mr. Anver Moola has assured that his company would deliver on its promise of getting life-changing medicines to patients, quickly, safely and efficiently.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow —William Pollard

NOW that our fearless fighter has returned to the stars where he rightfully belongs, what shall we now do? I will like to join the great English author and poet – Ben Johnson – in appealing to our Trojan warrior not to leave us unprotected “but to stay, I see thee in the hemisphere advanced and made a constellation there. Shine forth thou star and with rage or influence chide or cheer the drooping stage (Nigeria) which since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night.”