Nigeria’s dressing room at the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi was a joyous scene of celebration, as several key stars like skipper Nwankwo Kanu and Everton defender Joseph Yobo broke down in tears of joy after the team dramatically snatched a World Cup ticket on the final day of the qualifiers.

Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions are through to the World Cup finals South Africa following a 2-nil victory over Morocco in Fez.
Their qualification for South Africa 2010 sets a new African record of six World Cup appearances.

This match was yet another of this weekend’s decisive encounters which would be linked with either Gabon or Cameroon booking their tickets for South Africa.

As the Golden Eaglets file out against Switzerland in today’s final of the Nigeria 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, most Nigerians are already dreaming a repeat of the 2007 final in Korea where the Nigerian representatives defeated Spain to cart home the coveted trophy.
Chief coach of the Nigerian team, John Obuh is one of those optimistic Nigerians looking forward to an encore.

There is discontentment among electronic payment providers over the implementation of the National Central Switch (NCS) by querying the model being used by the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) to implement the NCS, especially the recent directives that all banks should connect to the switch.

THE Jigawa State government has proposed a World Bank contributory loan to the tune of $12.586 million for the implementation of community-based urban up-grading projects at Hadejia town, the Commissioner of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Aminu Mohammed, has revealed.

THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Borno State Council has elected its new executive members who are to run the affairs of the union for three years.

Bank customers have, many times, experienced the frustration of not being able to use their debit or credit cards on ATM or POS, irrespective of the banks that issued the cards or the banks that own the ATM or POS. Consequently banks’ customers have had to carry many cards belonging to different banks or card scheme e.g. Interswitch, E-Transact, Valucard, Visa, MasterCard, etc.

The Police in Minna, Niger State on Saturday arrested four persons suspected to be kidnappers of Alhaji Adamu Umar, a Permanent Secretary in the Niger State civil service.

Cancer killed 7.4 million people in 2004 alone, with more than 70 per cent of its victims recorded in developing countries, Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, said.