Ghana qualified for their first FIFA World Cup four years ago, coming from behind in a group that included South Africa to snatch top place. For the 2010 finals, they qualified without any notable problems, much to the delight of highly-rated striker Asamoah Gyan.

The cold war between the Presidential Task Force, PTF, and the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, may have finally been buried as the PTF has cancelled the idea of chartering an aircraft with NFF chartering theirs, too.

Mozambican Mambas head coach, Maart Nooij, has urged the Super Eagles to defeat Kenya on Saturday, promising to repay them by beating the visiting Carthage Lions of Tunisia.

It is just two days to the end of 13th edition of the FIFA Under 17 World Cup but the storm is getting thicker for AIT, incidentally for the services the television company under Daar Communications provided for Nigeria.

BackgroundOne of the most significant dividends of the Amnesty Deal is the reported plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FG) to allocate 10 per cent of its equity stakeholding in the oil joint venture (JV) companies to the oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta region.

IT was with pomp andpageantry that the banner was drawn on the celebration of the 30th edition of the World travel market yesterday in London with Nigeria dwarfing other African countries.

One of the benefits of the Olympic Games is a boost in tourism to the host city. This boost, according to data obtained by the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA), is wholly illusory. Indeed there are indications that the impact of the Olympic Games is detrimental.

The casinos, which would be in five-star hotels, are part of a 19-point plan by Brambilla to boost tourism in Italy, especially in the less-developed and crime-hit south, she said.

Discussing with Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, vice-president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, is always a delight. In this interview with Jimoh Babatunde at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos during the just concluded African Media Owners Forum organised by ThisDay Newspapers, he said Africa faces a huge food challenge as it is the only region of the world where per capita food production has been declining.

There is the widespread but false contention that the 2007 governorship election in Anambra State conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was annulled or cancelled by the Supreme Court.

The high rate of closure of micro-finance institutions, MFIs, has been attributed to lack of sound credit products which has hindered the MFBs from disbursing loans

Citibank Nigeria has restated its commitment to the development of the Nigerian economy, especially in the area of grassroots development.

Hon Ahmad Rabiu , Member, Investments & Securities Tribunal (IST) has said taking positions in the financial markets involves risks as well as rewards, and a large part of financial law and regulation is designed to protect the risk-taker, the investor for example through disclosure obligations, selling restrictions, product regulation and the concept of fairness.

The bearish trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE‘) continued Wednesday, as losses on the share prices of blue chip companies dragged down the value of listed equities by N1.99 billion.

Seventeen-month old Adaeze Esther Odidika has emerged the youngest customer to win N1m in the on-going Save and Smile Promotion organized by Fidelity Bank Plc.