The national beach soccer team, otherwise known as ‘Supersand Eagles’ mauled their counterparts from Mauritius 13-0 in their first match of the African Beach Soccer Championship in Durban, South Africa yesterday.
Veteran striker Isiaka Olawale hit six goals past the hapless Mauritian goalkeeper as he nonchallantly announced his fourth appearance at the continental championship.

PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, Most Rev. Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday vowed to mobilise Christians in the country to resist with the last drop of their blood any attempt by any government to impose tax on the church, just as he condemned clergymen who do not pay their income tax.

He, however, said the institution had taken actions to redress this image with the setting up of an anti-corruption and transparency unit within its fold.

The controversy surrounding the status of Amalar, an anti-malarial, has come to an end with the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) clarifying that the product was never banned, and that the Agency never pronounced that it was banned in a press statement concerning the importation fake and adulterated Amalar and Maloxine.

To check imported cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the state, the Lagos State Government is to establish permanent posts to monitor the immunization status of children coming into the state with a view to immunize them.