By Ola Ajayi Dennis and Feils, Dutchmen, left Neitherland on the 15th of March and arrived Nigeria about ten weeks after, traveling  through 18 countries in Sub-saharan Africa. Saturday Vanguard met them at Ibadan where they had a short stay before setting out again, they spoke on their experience and how they rode on motorcycle […]

The week long fashion and textile, solo/ specialised exhibition of the Lagos state chamber of commerce and industry last weekend, came to a climax with the hosting of a fashion show at the LCCI ultra modern complex in Alausa business district in Ikeja. The fashion show sponsored by Nichemtex a textile manufacturing company was aimed at promoting the fabric and also encourage designers to show case the various possibilities with the very colourful ankara fabric.

So many “ministries” are caught in the groove of “prosperity” that the gospel of the naira and kobo once entirely dominated our religious horizon. Perhaps it is because the Roman Catholic priesthood is shorn of that pre-occupation that the Cardinal, as well as other clerics of the same order, has found the space to turn around to the commonplace considerations of life … and that to the benefit of the common people.

I believe very clearly that the crisis has persisted over the years because of very bad governance, both at the national and state levels- governments that are insincere, inefficient, ineffective and buried in corruption.

Former Super Eagles assistant coach Joe Erico has walked this path before. In 2002, Erico was a member of the coaching crew that qualified Nigeria for the World Cup against all odds. Himself, present Super Eagles coach Shaibu Amodu and Steven Keshi went into the record books as the first set of indigenous coaches to pick a World Cup ticket for Nigeria but they were later booted out by the football federation, for not being world class coaches.

Former Green Eagles winger Adokie Amiesimaka is not just an ex-international but one who has administered the game, a member of various committees in the NFA and a passionate lover of the round leather game.

Globacom Limited has commiserated with the Management and players of Bayelsa United over the recent death of their captain, Abiel Tabor who was killed by armed robbers few hours after the team lifted the 2008/09 Globacom League trophy.

Former Green Eagles player, Luckman Osun believes that the Super Eagles will leave no stone unturned when they file out against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in Rades.

Former Super Eagles attacking midfielder Mutiu Adepoju a.k.a “Head Master” is confident that the Super Eagles will leave Rades smiling, as they take on Tunisia in one of the groups 2010 World Cup qualifiers today. The Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan General Manager, like Adokie Amiesimaka believes an attacking formation coupled with a good defence will see the Super Eagles leave Rades with the desired three points in the crucial to qualifier.

To find an answer, let’s get back to the simple process of training a child. It needs no qualification to get into kindergarten except that he can walk and talk and appears to be healthy.

It was a case of what goes around comes around for Akwa United last week as they were relegated to the less fancied Professional league at the end of the Globacom Premier League season last Sunday.

Unrelenting in their bid to unseat Asiegbu as president, in 2007, a group of state chairmen, led by Lagos State head, Remy Ohajianya, attempted to impeach the embattled president while he was away in France, where he went to attend the annual film festival, in Cannes.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board member, Dr Peter Singabele has called on Nigerians to pray for the Super Eagles as they prepare to tackle Tunisia in Rades today, in the third of the 2010 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifier.

They called on the national Boundary Commission to “revisit, as a matter of urgency the purported boundary adjustment between Cross River State and its sister state, Akwa Ibom which has led to the loss of our membership of the league of oil producing states of Nigeria .”

Dr. Biodun Adedipe is the Chief Consultant of B. Adedipe Associates Ltd. which specialises in management and financial consultations, environmental scanning and calibration, training, feasibility studies, recruitments, strategic planning and advisory services.