IN the past three years, Chief Mike Adenuga Jr has caused his company, Globacom, to commit up to N3billion to Nigerian football.

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN — EX-militant leaders in Edo State have hailed the appointment of one of their leaders, Mr Henry Binidodogha, alias Egbema I, as the Senior Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Security Matters, saying  his appointment would help in checking crimes, particularly the activities of bunkerers.

THERE was a twist at the weekend concerning a petition by Mrs. Ejueyitichie Oroye family of Sapele, Delta State, to the Assistant Inspector–General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, over alleged illegal invasion of a family property at 6, Boyo Road, Sapele, by Mr. Joseph Atenyiku, published in the Vanguard edition of November 25.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, top officials of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), led by its Managing Director, Mr. Mutiu Sumonu, Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta and community leaders from Batan area met at the weekend in Warri.

Northern politicians and some of their Southern allies, seeking for better relevance in the post-Yar‘Adua’s era, are directing arrows at the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and other potential rivals, Vanguard learnt, weekend.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop’ or ‘the devil finds work for idle hands’ are popular aphorisms which have equivalence in several languages and cultures.

The caretak-er management of the eight rescued banks are to manage them for two years. The two-year tenure was announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, after the Bankers’ Committee meeting in Enugu, yesterday.

FEDERATION presidents are the real winners of the crisis that engulfed the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, even as the three wise men, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, Rev. Moses Iloh and Chief Olatonkunbo Thomas, have quenched the fire that threatened the foundation of Nigerian Olympic family.

By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—THE Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, weekend in Benin faulted the statement credited to him that he called for the closure of Benin airport.

THE need for active communities’ participation in budget preparation and implementa-tion, took the front burner last week, as a two-day capacity building workshop was held by non- governmental organisations, Afro Centre for Develop-ment, Peace and Justice (AFRODEP) and the Poverty Alleviation For The Poor Initiative (PAFPI).

WORRIED by his health condition, the Urhobo Political Forum (UPF), weekend, organised a-20 minute prayer session for the quick recovery of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Though Nigeria is one of the countries in the vanguard of the creation of the Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum, GECF, it still has not ratified the membership agreement, putting off till June efforts to do so.

Kiddies football has set alight the Federal Capital Territory as the 3rd edition of the Nigeria Football Federation–organised National U-13 football championship rolled off the ground on Sunday.

A SENSE of belonging is what most people spend their whole lives looking to find; its why we are attached to friends and relatives; its why we spend a major part of our lives looking for that special someone to share our lives with; its why we build our homes to particular tastes and fill it with all sorts of knick knacks that make it a home..

Guinean club, Horoya FC of Guinea, defied the massive home support for their opponents, Gomido Football club of Togo, to qualify for the final of the 24th Eyadema Cup at the Municipal Stadium here in Lome.