Africa’s football legend, Abedi Pele Ayew, has tipped Nigeria to qualify for the semi final of the 27th African Cup of Nations ahead of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun.

THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwanu Lukman, yesterday, described as unacceptable, the abysmal low domestic gas utilisation in the country, in spite of the fact that the nation is ranked the 7th largest gas reserve in the world.

Mozambique coach Mart Nooij has lost his job after the Black Mamba’s were roasted 3-0 in their group C winner takes it all Nations Cup on Wednesday. Mozambique Football Federation president Feizal Sidat disclosed in Lubango, Angola that the contract of the Dutch-bor coach will not be renewed when it expires on January 30.

In order to whip up support for the country, one of the things the NFF did was to write to states asking that the associations should endeavour to come to Angola and support the Eagles.

Renowned world banks’ chieftains will be gathering in a banking conference in Nigeria on Thursday, February 11, 2010, to chart a way forward for Nigerian banks.

THE Federal government has been charged to direct Shell Petroleum Develop-ment Company (SPDC) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to abide by the agreements reached with their host communities for the sake of peace and cordial industrial relationship.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has adjudged Delta State as the best state under the Microfinance/Small and Middle Enterprise category and the 1st runner-up under the Agric Credit Guarantee scheme- Trust Fund Model.

The recent madness in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, which claimed over 50 lives, has once again brought to the fore the failing of our government to live up to its constitutional obligations to the citizenry, mostly as it relates to the fundamental objective and directive principle of state policy, which is the basis upon which the citizens surrendered their sovereignty to a few people who constitute government.

India is to invest 359 million dollars in two Nigerian oil blocs, Mr Mahesh Sachdev, the country’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, has said. The two blocks, OPL 279 and OPL 285, are being jointly explored by Indian joint venture company of ONGC Videsh and Lakshmi Mittal’s Mittal Investments Sarl (MIS), known as ONGC Mittal Energy Ltd, incorporated in Cyprus.

THE people of Egbema Kingdom in Warri North local government area of Delta State, and their Ovia South-West counterparts in Edo State, have called on Delta State government to stop one Mr. Isaac Thinkan from parading himself as the Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom to avert fresh crisis in the Niger Delta.