The tone of despair that rent the Sheraton Hotel venue of the gathering was not too unfamiliar with the announcement that eclipsed the country’s second attempt at democratic rule in 1983.

NOVEMBER 14. This is the day that so many Nigerians look up to with mixed feelings. This is the day that the Green Eagles would know whether they would be part of the party that would partake in the World Cup in South Africa.

Chairman of Heartland FC, Ignatius Okeahialam already has his eyes on the Orange CAF Champions League shield as the Owerri soccer outfit line out against TP Mazembe Sunday at the Dan Anyiam Stadium.

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has scheduled elections into the Executive Committee of NOC on Dec. 9, 2009 during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Committee.

IT is only in Nigeria that we expect success to happen because we have prayed, as if we are the only people who pray. Rather we could be about the only people who have commercialised praying. Prayers are for a fee, and when they do not produce victories we expect from a football game, for instance, it is adduced that the money paid was not enough to interest the Almighty, on whose behalf the prophet was paid.

IT is pretty difficult to objectively decide who the most beautiful women in sports are. It has become a case of the more you look, the less you see as the damsels dazzle in their chosen fields.

Is CNPP involved in the formation of the National Democratic Movement ( NDM) ?
The formation of National Democratic Initiative ( NDI) is an unfortunate development within the ranks of those who are trying to defeat the PDP in the 2011 general election and establish the foundation of a true democratic development for Nigeria.

They say two heads are better than one but not if you are clueless marathon brothers Sergio and Fika Motsoeneng.
The nearly identical pair from South Africa did believe two sets of legs would be better than one as they hatched a plot to win their country’s gruelling 90_kilometre Comrades marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on the coast in 1999.

When the Sunborn Yatch Hotel, a floating hotel facility, berthed at the Marina waterfront recently, it elicited a lot of excitement among many Lagosians. Many saw it as a spectacular sight to behold, especially it was the first hotel of its kind to float on water in Nigeria.

By Bolaji Owasanoye A number of factors were identified as stifling investments, economic growth and robust business practices in Nigeria. These factors hinder local and foreign investment in core areas such as infrastructure provision, agriculture, real estate to mention a few. One notable feature is the inadequacies or absence of modern laws in virtually all […]

IBADAN – THE Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan Thursday has nullified the election of Senator Iyiola Omisore representing Osun East Senatorial Constituency in the National Assembly.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Men of the Benue State Police Command have apprehended a three-man gang who specialises in snatching cars in the country. The suspects who were nabbed at a routine Police check point in Makurdi town are Noah Onoja, a 25-year-old school drop-out; Godwin Aduma, 27, and Augustine Odeh, a 21-years-old security […]

By Umar Yusuf YOLA— Twelve of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State are to benefit from the “In Care of the People (COPE) poverty alleviation programme of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP). Under the programme, 1,000 households in the selected council areas would benefit from the N72 million released by the Federal […]

GERIAN banks are expected to be recapitalised as soon as possible and the near-to-medium-term outlook for Nigeria’s economy was positive, Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Wednesday.

THE Germany Embassy said in Abuja on Wednesday that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from that country to Nigeria in 2008 was 138 million Euro. Mr Cord Busche, the First Secretary, Press and Cultural Section, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the forthcoming 2ndGerman-Nigeria Business Forum coming up in Abuja from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10.