By Mike Ebonugwo THE recurring decimal of fuel scarcity in Nigeria was the issue that occupied the attention of parliamentarians at a bus-stop gathering in Ikotun, Lagos on Tuesday.

THE purported disqualification of Sports Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, has definitely hit the sour note with Director General of the NSC, Dr. Patrick Ekeji, describing the action as “executive rascality”.

The draws for the 2009/2010 season of the Nigeria Amateur League Division One, will take place tomorrow at the FIFA Technical Centre, National Stadium, Abuja .

With the Super Eagles qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa still reverberating across the globe, one of Nigeria’s leading banks, Access Bank Plc, is tantalising its customers with an opportunity to watch live UEFA Champions League games anywhere in Europe in a promo described as unprecedented by soccer followers.

Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, will officially flag off the fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships this weekend at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River State.

MOST Valuable Player, MVP, and Silver shoe winner of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, Nigeria 2009, Sani Emmanuel, has dedicated his award to less privileged youths as he also promised to fund a foundation that would cater for them.
Sani, a product of My People FC, a club owned and funded by Pastor TB Joshua of Synagogue Church of All Nations made the pledge yesterday in a Thanksgiving Service which was attended by former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba among other dignitaries.

“Nigeria and Nigerians are not as bad as the world take us and that should not stop us from telling our story. We have to tell our story to the world, no one knows our story like us.” declared Minister of Information and Communication Mrs Dora Akunyili.

The Honourable Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, on Thursday advised the three tiers of government to look inwards to generate sustainable resources to meet the minimum requirements and needs of their economies, particularly the infrastructural development. He gave the advice in Ibadan, Oyo State at the 2009 Ibadan Week Conference organised by the Jericho Businessmen Club at the Banquet Hall of Premier Hotel.

Reuters Nigeria on Friday renewed three shallow water oil licences jointly operated with ExxonMobil, granting the U.S. energy firm leases of a further 20 years with the option to renew again.

The dream of Mr. Akinfenwa Oluwaseun, a chartered accountant who won the first Diamond Visa Credit Card FIFA promo, to watch the 2010 FIFA World Cup matches live in South Africa has become a reality with the presentation of the coveted prize to him in Lagos.

Indomie Instant Noodles has affirmed its commitments to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative that will continue to have direct impact on its consumers and the communities generally.

In a way to ensure a smooth business running domestically and internationally, DHL, a global market leader in the international express and logistics industry, has inaugurated its N405m International Airside Gateway in Lagos.

One of the winners of the three main prizes in the recently concluded marketing promotions by Guinness Nigeria Plc to commemorative its 250 years global existence and to celebrate Greatness, Nigeria’s Mrs. Gbemisola Awofade, mother of six and a proprietress of Mama Ayu’s Bar, Lagos will be travelling to South Africa with two of her sons to attend an exclusive, live performance show by The Black Eyed Peas that forms part of the 250th anniversary of Guinness.

Following the successful commencement of its Yuletide campaigns, Mouka foam has announced the names of winners from two regions in the ongoing Mouka Jollof Bonanza and Rago Bonanza campaigns. At the North zone raffle draws held in Kano , Mallam Aminu Ibrahim won the star prize of a ram.

After several weeks of an on-line voting by fans across many countries, three young persons have been given the real opportunity to travel around the world for one year as members of Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206.