Wise counsel finally prevailed in the Eagles camp as team coach, Shaibu Amodu, yesterday made a last minute change to his original list of 23 players penciled for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.

Shame! Players invited by the Nigeria Football Federation last week arrived Abuja to begin camping for the 2nd edition of the CAF African Nations Championship slated to hold in Sudan next year, but were abandoned as they were seen loitering around the Federal Capital Territory.

Former boss of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Col. Abdulmumuni Aminu (rtd), fancies the chances of the Super Eagles beating defending champions, Egypt, when both sides clash in their African Nations Cup opener on January 12

THE confusion and uncertainty which characterised the Nigerian energy industry in 2009 appears to have dogged it into year 2010, especially in the face of the plethora of unresolved issues including the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) before the national assembly, the debate and anticipation around deregulation of the downstream petroleum sub-sector and epileptic power supply despite government’s much talked about plans to generate 6000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity by December 2009.

PORT HARCOURT: PIPELINE professionals’ association of Nigeria has urged the federal government to set up an agency that would always interface with oil bearing communities.